[P3600 ROM Development] the.decoy:
Yes, I am also finding IE8 to be almost unusable due to its excessive memory requirements ... I have even tried recently to recmod conversions slightly so that iexplore.exe and one of its DLLs are both left as modules, however it appears to have done little to help the slowness. :(

Unfortunately I fear that the IE8 that is being provided in the latest 6.5x builds simply isn't intended to run on such a small amount of memory. I had been opting to leave it in (instead of downgrading it to IE6 as Chanvi often did) simply because I find IE6 to be almost as sluggish and far worse at rendering pages ... lately I am having second thoughts :rolleyes:

I could try and convert modules from other parts of the OS instead (or actually let a portion of Slot0 get used up by the IE8 modules), but this would end up being very detrimental to the performance of everything else on the phone.

^^^ And this is really the main point for me - my TRIN* device is a Phone 1st, SMS & Email device 2nd, Camera / GPS / Google Maps 3rd, and then somewhere under those it is the Web Browser of absolute desperation or "out on the go" convenience. For me, the screen is too small, the memory to sparse and the internet itself is generally far too "media-enhanced" these days for anything to ever look any good in IE8 on a Trinity :(

I actually need too check out Skyfire and see if I should simple include this in the kitchen in the first place.

Also ... thanks for the kind words Super :o

Indeed we are all standing on each other shoulders here (to badly paraphrase Isaac Newton) and that's what is so cool about this forum :D

The great irony is that back when I first started doing XDA-Dev work, I didn't know what to do but had plenty of time to investigate it ... now I finally know exactly what I want to do, I can barely find a spare moment to get it done :rolleyes:

However, if things work out as I expect I might have enough free time next week to finally get some more time spent on the new Kitchen. I already have the VK itself successfully building ROMS for either Trinity or P3600i (I even posted an early version in my thread) but I since discovered just how divergent the OEM packages had become between the two models and decided to break them down completely and identify exactly what bits must be different (eg: Camera?) so that the rest can be made uniform again. On top of that there are a few little tweaks in there for WM6.1 that aren't relevant any more, along with the other nagging compatibility bugs we are starting to see with WM6.5x and things like the dialer skins and HTC "Enhancement" packages.

Essentially I am just breaking down everything Chanvi & oggi put together and working out what/where everything is at a file-by-file level, so that I know how to best reassemble it again. It is some seriously painstaking sh!t but hopefully the pay-off will be a clean, organised base kitchen that we can all add our own flavours of EXT packages and mods to in the future. :)

lol It's also for my own peace of mind, so that can stop having so many "mysteries" trying to work out why "disabling X has broken Y", etc. :rolleyes:

In the meantime it is great to see people like yourself and _X_ keeping the ROM-hungry masses well fed :p