[Vimperator] vimperator on seamonkey/iceape

Juri Hamburg mail.hamburg at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 13 07:49:25 PDT 2008


Jeremy Maitin-Shepard schrieb:
> Juri Hamburg <mail.hamburg at googlemail.com> writes:
>
>   
>>> Daniel Bainton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I don't think Vimperator uses any Firefox specific stuff, just normal
>>>> gecko functions. Dunno how much the gui options on Seamonkey and
>>>> Firefox UIs differ though. It probably wouldn't be that hard to port.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> That's true for 95% i guess, there ARE some firefox specific functions
>>> like BrowserHome() which are called occasionally. But i think generally
>>> it would work, maybe some missing features.
>>>       
>
>   
>> If anyone finds any modification of vimperator or mods it himself to 
>> make it installable (and useable, of course) on iceape, please let me 
>> know. Firefox is nice, but really fat, and on a 512mb machine there are 
>> other things which need ram too. :)
>>     
>
> Is it really true that Seamonkey uses less memory than Firefox?  I'd
> really be quite surprised.  As far as I understand, Seamonkey basically
> includes everything that Firefox does, plus more (i.e. the other
> applications in the suite).
>
> Perhaps you are thinking of xulrunner rather than iceape?
>
>   
I'm absolutely sure. Well, iceape with it's mail client started, 
together use less RAM then firefox alone. Otherwise i wouldn't use it.


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