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Post #11 by Gorgonops
Source Forum68kMLA
CategorySoftware
Post DateWed, 1 Jul 2009 - 16:34
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/new-gecko-browser-for-os-9.17776/
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Just for cheap thrills just now I downloaded this and installed it on my SheepShaver 9.0.4 image, and it seems to "work". It displays sites like Wikipedia just fine and I'd swear it feels faster then iCab 3.0.5. Ironically, however, it totally can't display this forum. ;^) (Unless you do the view->style->none trick.)

On the other hand, holy cow is it a memory hog. Sheepshaver's configured with 128MB RAM and Classilla's using 80 of it. When I first tried to run it after downloading it with iCab it hung forever on the startup screen, and when I clicked on the finder I got an "out of memory" error. Clearly I should of shut down iCab first... So, yeah. I'm curious whether this is going to be at all usable on, say, PowerBook 1400's and other such machines with 64MB-ish RAM limits.

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