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List:       haiku-development
Subject:    [haiku-development] Re: Fwd: [webkit-dev] Proposal: Not supporting x86 w/o SSE2
From:       "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6723 () twc ! com>
Date:       2018-07-31 20:57:42
Message-ID: 20180731205815.88A55282AF () turing ! freelists ! org
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> On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 at 13:52, Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@pulkomandy.tk> wrote:
> > Given that such old machines are quite slow anyways, it may make more sense to \
> > use a lightweight browser such as NetSurf instead for them.

> NetSurf it is then. :)

> Regards,
> Humdinger

My experience with NetSurf, Otter Browser and Qupzilla (< 2.0) on FreeBSD decidedly \
favors Otter Browser, but I have never used any browser on Haiku except Web Positive.

Qupzilla 2.x is apparently a big improvement but uses the QtWebEngine based on \
Chromium but adapted for Qt and would be much heavier than 1.8.9, hence not a good \
bet for x86 without SSE2, and perhaps too much for current Haiku.

Would Otter Browser be too heavy for x86 without SSE2?

I believe part of the purpose of Haiku, at least presently, is to be able to run old \
BeOS applications, hence it would be desirable to support x86 without SSE2 as much as \
possible at least on R1 without impeding progress on more modern computers.


Tom


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