tu...@posteo.de <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > On 04/02 05:41, Martin Vaeth wrote: >> It seems currently that mozilla, google, and apple are the only >> oranganizations with enough resources to maintain full browsers, >> and any forks of their browsers which diverge more than a patchset >> of essentially fixed size are doomed to fail for this very reason. > > ...and if after all that (at least) firefox gets so bulky and has such > a hugh memory footprint that (on a multitasking OS) no other > reasonable "powerful" application will multitask with it (or your > machine goes swapping) and if mozilla itsself walks down an at least > questionable way...then... > What?
It's the way it is whether you like it or not. > In the moment I cannot use firefox - regardless how > advanced/secure/modern/or what it is. It does not fit into > my working environment - it is to huge. The memory footprint of the main system with firefox is here about 1GB. So if you have another memory hungry application running (like emerging gcc in the background) you will need at least 2GB. I guess 2GB RAM is about the limit to have a usable system, nowadays. Working with 2GB and a dual core is possible with current gentoo and firefox without too many restrictions, but of course it is much more fun with 8GB and i3, which is probably about the smallest desktop machine which you get nowadays (if you buy a new one).
