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Re: Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko
« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2012, 02:18:24 pm »
Do they make use of enough threads ? :P
That's actually one of the reasons I use Chromium on my computer, because (my computer is not that fast) pages regularly freeze and that causes the entire browser to hang.
I think having a different process for each tab is a waste of RAM. That's why I don't use Chromium or Chrome.
I have no idea how they structure threads etc on Fx OS
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Re: Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko
« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2012, 02:57:19 pm »
looks awesome. I dont have a smartphone tho. (nor any other 'smart' device except calc lol)
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Re: Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko
« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2012, 07:23:19 pm »
looks awesome. I dont have a smartphone tho. (nor any other 'smart' device except calc lol)
You can test it on your computer :)
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Hacking#ATTENTION_-_Desktop_builds_now_available
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Re: Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko
« Reply #18 on: September 18, 2012, 04:31:53 am »
installing that thing on my device

We can remove Android from a phone?? O.O
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Re: Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko
« Reply #19 on: September 18, 2012, 08:12:30 am »
installing that thing on my device

We can remove Android from a phone?? O.O
Yes, well, you can put a modified Android rom on your phone, so you can replace it with something else.

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Re: Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko
« Reply #20 on: September 18, 2012, 07:23:12 pm »
There are always possibilities to do such stuff ^^

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Re: Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko
« Reply #21 on: September 18, 2012, 09:33:50 pm »
Free software FTW!

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Re: Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko
« Reply #22 on: September 18, 2012, 09:51:49 pm »
Free and open source software FTW!
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Re: Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko
« Reply #23 on: September 18, 2012, 10:40:35 pm »
Well, you're right. FOSS FTW.

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Re: Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko
« Reply #24 on: September 18, 2012, 10:59:56 pm »
To many folks, Free Software refers to Open Source (It was actually the first catchphrase). FOSS is a fair amount more recent.

@Eeems I doubt the threading on B2G will be any different than current firefox. But on the Tab memory wasting point, keep in mind that RAM is currently very cheap, computation-wise. The extra ~100 MB I might use, max, is made up for by the advantages, like allowing one tab to crash while the others live on, and I don't mind because I have another 6 GB of RAM free either way.

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Re: Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko
« Reply #25 on: September 19, 2012, 02:35:13 pm »
@Eeems I doubt the threading on B2G will be any different than current firefox. But on the Tab memory wasting point, keep in mind that RAM is currently very cheap, computation-wise. The extra ~100 MB I might use, max, is made up for by the advantages, like allowing one tab to crash while the others live on, and I don't mind because I have another 6 GB of RAM free either way.
I have 8GB and I don't like anything filling up more then 1GB of it. While I know ram is cheap, I have regularly filled up all my ram due to things I work on ( VM's etc ) so having a separate process per tab taking up extra ram, and filling up my task manager. No not ok with it. I'd rather it was a separate thread per tab, which makes more sense in my mind. I very rarely have Fx crash on me and when it does I just restart it and get back to where I was.
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