Other free browsers
Posted Oct 5, 2006 10:41 UTC (Thu) by
Duncan (guest, #6647)
In reply to:
Other free browsers by mikov
Parent article:
The return of Iceweasel
> [In Firefox] everything, even separate browser windows,
> runs in the same thread using cooperative multitasking.
> Does anybody has some insights about the design of
> Konqueror ? How does it deal with the same issues ?
Konqueror can be configured (preferences, performance) to share memory
space (tho I believe it still uses separate threads) or such that each
launched window is a separate instance. (Multiple tabs still share the
same process space. I'm not sure but I think "detached" tabs continue to
share the same process altho they are then separate windows.) I believe
the default is separate processes for web browsing, shared processes for
local file system browsing, but I've been running fully separate processes
for long enough I can't say for sure /what/ the default is.
Another configure option available (same place) for Konqueror is
preloading -- whether to keep "spare" instances in reserve. There's a
checkbox for preloading one instance after KDE startup, another that
enables preloading additional instances every time you use a prelaoded
instance up, and a spinnerbox for configuring the number of instances to
keep preloaded. (I have it set at two.)
Duncan
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