27 Feb
2010
27 Feb
'10
7:45 a.m.
Does Classilla support HTML5?
YouTube is currently pulling up a warning on every page I visit, stating
that my browser (Firefox 2.0.0.20) will be unsupported after 13th March. I
suspect it won't be long after that that other mainstream sites follow suite
:(
I don't own a Mac, just bringing this to your attention.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre at floodgap.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 3:45 AM
Subject: Re: Classilla 9.1 released
in
> > It's still technically off-topic (2002
is only 8 years ago), but for
Mac
> > OS 8.6 and 9 users, I released Classilla 9.1
tonight, the most current
> > version of the Mozilla-based web browser I maintain for the classic
Mac
> > OS. It's still a work in progress, but I
eat my own dogfood, and this
> > tastes good enough to put in the can. (And belabour the metaphor.)
> >
> > http://www.classilla.org/
>
> I've been using it on occasion since you first mentioned it a few months
ago.
> It is much better in rendering capability than
the other old browsers I
have
> here. I would like to use it more, but it seems
to take quite a chunk of
> memory, right from startup and maxes out my limited old machine. Is 9.1
any
better with
regards to memory usage?
9.1 is about the same, but unfortunately it's probably going to be worse later versions. The reason is simply because Mozilla
code tends to be
piggish
about memory, and the increasing complexity of modern
sites makes
Classilla
very unstable without a generous allocation. I am
planning to adapt a
later
JavaScript interpreter to the next version of
Classilla, but that is going
to
require quite a bit more stack overhead, and later
layout requirements may
be even fatter.
Note that the allocation can be made out of virtual memory; you don't need
to
have sufficient physical RAM (though it is strongly
advised) if you have
enough total addressing space, even if that space is virtual. For example,
I
test and run Classilla on my beloved PowerBook 1400 by
using RAM Doubler,
and
it only has 60MB of physical RAM. Plus, RAM Doubler is
much higher
performance
than Apple VM, but Apple Virtual Memory will also
work.
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