On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:21:50AM +0000, Bobby Powers wrote: >>I am happy to annouce the release of Surf version 106. Surf is >>basically Browse with the Mozilla/XULRunner guts ripped out, and >>replaced with the WebKit renderer. >> >>Obligitory screenshot: >>http://dev.laptop.org/~bobbyp/surf/surf_1.png >> >>Feeling adventurous? well you can test it out yourself on a Sugar >>desktop near you. >>First you need WebKit-gtk, pywebkitgtk and gnome-python-gconf: >>sudo yum install WebKit-gtk pywebkitgtk gnome-python-gconf (not sure >>what the packages are called on Debian) > > On Debian it Seems to be these > > python-webkit and python-gnome2 > > or possibly instead (depending on the parts actually needed) > > python-webkit-dev and python-gnome2 > > (libwebkit is pulled in automatically by python-webkit*)
Thanks, that'll save me a few minutes later when I try to install it on my DebXO install :) >>An informal test showed that Browse in sugar-emulator used 100MB in >>opening and navigating to gmail, while surf used 85MB. That still >>seems like a lot, but its a 15% savings right off the bat. > > Please document how to measure the memory use (even if non-academic), to > make it possible to compare on other environments using exact same > measuring method (as I suspect it may vary a lot, depending on compile > options of e.g. xulrunner). What I did: step 1: run a new instance of sugar-emulator step 2: click on the browse or surf icon from the home view step 3: navigate to https://mail.google.com step 4: log in using your gmail credentials step 5: open gnome-system-monitor and check the memory usage yours, Bobby _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel