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Re: The Continued Mozilla Syndrome

Gregory Wexler — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:17:16 -0000

While Alt-tab is useful, a visual tab interface created by dragging a Prism window over another to 'unify' them into a single tabbed-window would be nice (see panel interface in Dreamweaver).

Also - you still need a 'web desktop' place where you can login and your desktop of Prism windows automatically popup if Prism is installed on a system. That would be a nice unifying interface for mobilites like me.

Re: The Continued Mozilla Syndrome

bradyk — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:04:53 -0000

Really? I won't be able to use it until they release something for Linux, but from what I read (directly from the Mozilla post), I was under the impression that it would have separate memory instances.

Maybe this is something they'll be doing in the future? And they're only concerned right now with it working, before they realize it in full?

Thanks for the info though, this is good to know.

--Kyle

Re: The Continued Mozilla Syndrome

mjt — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:59:03 -0000

... "which allows web applications to run independently" ...

... "It’s about running it in a separate process" ...

that seems to be what i'm reading from the proponents. however, when i run multiple "Prism" apps on my windows box at the office, and i execute "Process Explorer" (from SysInternals), i see only *one* "xulrunner.exe" in the Task List.

and if i kill that single xulrunner process, guess what? it killed all three of my "individual" Prism apps - same behavior as if i launched multiple browser windows.

granted, the memory footprint is small, but i can achieve that with Opera or K-Meleon.