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Flow Browser – A parallel, multithreaded HTML browser

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Re: Flow Browser – A parallel, multithreaded HTML browser

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This is almost certainly going to be proprietary, so it's nothing to hold your breath over. Ekioh makes enterprise software for set-top boxes. They do know their browser rendering, though: they stripped Webkit down to have a 24mb memory footprint.

Nevertheless perhaps it has a chance to conquer the market if it's so good otherwise. I love free software but have to admit a browser (or whatever an app) doesn't have to be open-source for this.

Re: Flow Browser – A parallel, multithreaded HTML browser

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post #6

This is almost certainly going to be proprietary, so it's nothing to hold your breath over. Ekioh makes enterprise software for set-top boxes. They do know their browser rendering, though: they stripped Webkit down to have a 24mb memory footprint.

Nevertheless perhaps it has a chance to conquer the market if it's so good otherwise. I love free software but have to admit a browser (or whatever an app) doesn't have to be open-source for this.

and then it takes over, does whatever it wants, and now you've got IE6 again.

open source is our insurance policy against the next IE6. One may come again, but we can head it off at the pass before it dominates the market.

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