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[Kekerot]

How good will the browser performance be?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8YNkZ4pfYA

Check out this video, its an 800mhz intel MID running directly off of its 512mb of memory to speed it up. Can we do something similar with Pandora?

[Exophase]

How else would you run it if not "directly off of its memory"?

[Kekerot]

How else would you run it if not "directly off of its memory"?

I mean like a ramdisk so it doesn''t have to write to flash memory.

[Exophase]

How else would you run it if not "directly off of its memory"?

I mean like a ramdisk so it doesn''''t have to write to flash memory.

Creating a ramfs in Linux is very doable, and I''m sure you can configure whatever browser to put its files there.

[lulzfish]

The browser will be configured to not write to flash at all anyway, so there''s not really an issue here.

[Kekerot]

The browser will be configured to not write to flash at all anyway, so there''''s not really an issue here.

Oh alright cool, I have only seen one video of the browser in action in an evildragon video but it only showed him using this forum. I hope it handles graphic intense pages adequately.

[lulzfish]

Well, I''m guessing. but it would be VERY strange for the devs to ship a browser that wrote to flash any more than it needed to.

Probably the browser itself, the pages, and a small cache will all be in memory. The only stuff in flash might be passwords and history and that sort of thing.

[RavenX]

I hate to even use the F-word, but as I am sure some are curious, does anyone know yet if it will support Flash out of the box (the plug-in, not memory), or are we going to have to wait a while for that one?

[lulzfish]

Well, I don''t think Adobe has an ARM / Linux / Firefox plugin going yet, so if there''s any Flash support, it will probably be something like Gnash or a VLC plugin for Flash video. An official one might be coming soon from Adobe, since there''s a number of ARM cell phones and the like who want in on Flash.

I''m still just waiting for it to *other f-word* DIE. DIE FLASH DIE.

[Yod4z]

swfdec or gnash is already available for flash support on browser like firefox.

[arrrgh]

swfdec or gnash is already available for flash support on browser like firefox.

Are ARM versions available?

[Capn_Fish]

http://www.angstrom-.../?pkgname=gnash
http://www.angstrom-...?pkgname=swfdec
http://www.angstrom-...=swfdec-mozilla

Out of the box, it would appear.

[Etinin]

Just copy the proper .so file from a Nokia Internet Tablet or Archos with proper flash support and voilà (the files can''t be distributed though, so you have to do it yourself).

[cb88]

actually didn't adobe just chance thier license so they can be distributed?

[arrrgh]

\[url=http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=gnash\]http://www.angstrom-.../?pkgname=gnash\[/url\]
\[url=http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=swfdec\]http://www.angstrom-...?pkgname=swfdec\[/url\]
\[url=http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=swfdec-mozilla\]http://www.angstrom-...=swfdec-mozilla\[/url\]

Out of the box, it would appear.

Cool!