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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by fauigerzigerk on Monday February 24, 2014 @10:22AM (#7291233)
But how can a web browser be "extremely light" nowadays? It has to do all the complex layout rendering and JavaScript execution of pages that have ~50MB memory usage.
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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by eli on Monday February 24, 2014 @11:20AM (#7291578)
Opera Mini made a lightweight mobile browser by offloading some of the rendering and javascript to a proxy server.
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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by camus2 on Monday February 24, 2014 @02:34PM (#7292902)
which gives you some really fast offline apps... not.
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