TIP Lightweight Firefox with 1.5 Tabs
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[edit] Situation
You had an 1.0.x version. You switched to the 1.5.x version and it apears that:
- it's too slow while compiling and you don't want to change your kernel settings (more latency)
- it also appears that it takes an incredible time to open a windows in a non tabbed way
- it consumes too much resources and you want a lightweight browser
- you don't want to switch to Opera that has the same tabs functionality
Mozilla 1.5 tested on a piii 700 with 320MB ram in gentoo (more than 2005.0 (don't know wich coreutils versions my installation match) with -02 (-03 failled to compile kdevelop and there is not much differences) -march=pentium3 and -pipe. It worked well on a celeron-p4-mobile with 256MB RAM and Windows (but when you see config files in the linux version of mozilla you see that is is made for windows).
[edit] Solution
You can add a dangerous tabed browsing extention (that adds more weight to the 1.0 mozilla).
It's called tabbrowser extentions and it's at http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/index.html.en. Remember it's dangerous and Mozilla highly discorage it's use, but it's cited in a mozilla wishlist faq.
[edit] Advantages and Disavantages
- Too many features. Many features are squeezed into it, so TBE is heavy; some people are annoyed with needless features; and so on.
- Sometimes conflicts with other extensions or themes. When you have disaffection about TBE's features and you combine TBE with other extensions about tabbed browsing features, they may conflict. Because, to provide its service, TBE changes deep layer of Firefox implementations. Of course, many extensions work with TBE correctly. Actually, I use Sage, Bookmarks Backup, CuteMenus, my other extensions, etc.
- Less maintenancibility by huge codes. Virtually, now no one can update TBE codes, excluding me. Its codes are like as entwined spaghetti. Many unknown bugs are maybe there, many known problems (with unknown reasons) too.
More on advantages and disavantages http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/tradeoff.html.en
I selected the basic tab browsing setting after installation. I have not tested it in my slow computer that has the 1.5 version. I'll downgrade and test it (so i need to recompile firefox and that will take a while. That's why I've not tested it yet). Please tell your configuration if you test it. It can be useful.
By the way the settings of this extention (very interesting; can behave like Opera) can be acessed in mozilla:
toosl->extentions , then click on this extention and select options
It would be great if someone split this huge program and work on it (I don't have the skills).
