[Epiphany] Footprint work - minimo

[dougt netscape com (Doug Turner)]

Good afternoon,

I and a few other engineers at Netscape are working on reducing 
footprint in the mozilla browser.  You may be interested in looking at 
the "minimo" branch that we are working on.  The aim here is to remove 
"stuff" that isn't essential to supporting an browser application on a 
device.

For example, if your application doesn't require XUL - there is no 
reason you should have to ship XUL support.  If you don't want to 
support FTP (as an example), you don't have to ship the protocol handler 
and related code.  In these cases, you just run configure with a special 
"mozconfig" file and presto - a custom mozilla.

New Support in Minimo:

Disabling xpinstall, js component loading, allowing a simple single 
profile, and removed obsolete file abstractions.  Currently we are at 
8mb in terms of disk footprint at around 15mb in memory footprint.

The tinderbox for this work is here:
http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=MiniMo

As the 1.4a Mozilla Trunk opens up, we hope to land these changes back 
onto the trunk.

Note that these are custom mozilla builds and hence your application 
will not be using a system installation of Mozilla (aka the GRE).

Your comments welcome.

-- 
Doug Turner
dougt@netscape.com