Hi all
mozilla 0.9.2 was out a couple of days ago.
I've tried it a bit, and there seems to have greatly improved in the field
of memory leaks. With 0.9.1 after an hour of extensive browsing I could
easily get the memory usage from around 20MB to around 30MB and much more.
On this version I couldn't get it to leak memory (at least: not that
fast). The fact that it needs 20MB just to get going is still a con, but
at least it won't eat up too much. So I think that mozilla is now worth
testing...
Another thing I would recommend others to try is skipstone:
http://www.muhri.net/skipstone
This is a gtk browser that uses the mozilla engine. Unlike Galeon
(http://galeon.sf.net) it is not a gnome app that depends on gnome for
services.
It is built with simplicity in mind. The interface is modiled mainly after
older versions of netscape. It lacks many features, but simplicity is
another feature, and mozilla is gravely missing it. I also like
skipstone's crash-recovery (alsthough I must admit I didn't encounter too
much of it).
It has many rough edges, but all-in-all it is quote usable, and is faster
and a bit smaller than mozilla.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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