52.6 MiB + 7.7 MiB = 60.3 MiB midori
27.2 MiB + 3.1 MiB = 30.3 MiB gxms
And, just for the heck of it, Firefox's usage with only this forum open in a tab:
230.0 MiB + 4.9 MiB = 235.0 MiB firefox
I think that quite well sums up why I say GXMS is low on memory and lightweight.
]]>I had my Firefox running (albeit with two or three tabs, next to the XMS web interface)at 360ish MB, whereas GXMS "only" took 60MB. That's 20% of what Firefox used and good enough to me.
I guess I could look into webkitgtk's API again to see if there are some settings I can set to make it lighter.
]]>And webkit isn't big in memory?
Depends on how you use it. In this case, it sure takes less memory than Firefox. Plus, now I don't have to sift through all my tabs to get to XMS; I can just switch to my chatting tag and back.
]]>I always found it rather annoying to have a big memory hungry browser open just to chat a bit on XMS and of course, switching back and forth between my laptop and my phone wasn't going to do it either.
Thus, I wrote a quick, lightweight (48 SLOC) "desktop client" to Ebuddy XMS' webinterface. It's actually just a webkit view inside a GTK3 window which points to their webinterface url. Nothing more, nothing less.
And webkit isn't big in memory?
]]>I'm an Ebuddy XMS user and I use their webinterface to XMS alot. I always found it rather annoying to have a big memory hungry browser open just to chat a bit on XMS and of course, switching back and forth between my laptop and my phone wasn't going to do it either.
Thus, I wrote a quick, lightweight (48 SLOC) "desktop client" to Ebuddy XMS' webinterface. It's actually just a webkit view inside a GTK3 window which points to their webinterface url. Nothing more, nothing less.
If you are interested (I know most people won't be, but I hope to give the few who would use this an "ooh, nice" moment), you can grab it from my GitHub: https://github.com/Unia/gxms
Building instructions are all there. I will add a PKGBUILD in a minute. EDIT: It's up.
EDIT2: AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gxms-git/
EDIT 23-12-2013: GXMS has been deleted.
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