Re:Who cares about Chrome. IE6 Has 25% Market Share
by stcredzero on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @01:08PM
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Memory management is largely orthogonal to a whole lot of stuff. That's a big area where Firefox can improve.
Re:Who cares about Chrome. IE6 Has 25% Market Share
by Zev on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @01:21PM
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All I said was that the code can't be copied and pasted between browsers. (probably.) Doing so A. wont work (most likely), and B. lead to poor memory management on the application if it somehow does manage to work.
Instead, the ideas will be taken and copied (and hopefully made better). But idea's aren't code. So unless you're talking about human memory (which seems highly unlikely given you said "…where Firefox can improve") I'm not quite sure what benefits in terms of memory usage Firefox (or Safari or even Opera) gets from this.
Re:Who cares about Chrome. IE6 Has 25% Market Share
by stcredzero on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @02:25PM
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Entire subsystems like Google Gears can probably be put in place, with a lot of code used without modification.
Also, if someone implemented my original proposal in this thread, this would be entirely orthogonal to any code currently in Firefox.
Re:Who cares about Chrome. IE6 Has 25% Market Share
by DougBTX on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @08:10PM
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Gears and WebKit were designed to be reusable, other features such as the process model would be much harder to integrate into Firefox.
I'd be interested to see Firefox embedded in a "wrapper" VM, but I think you'll find it harder to implement than you expect. Please post to HN if you give it a shot.
However if you meant the spread of ideas can flow from Chrome to Firefox (or even Safari; WebKit is open source as well), then yes, you're right about that. But its highly likely that the underlying code for said feature will be the exact same in all three browsers.