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The iphone has the Safari web browser which I imagine must be cut down as the iPhone can't have that much RAM in it.
Also why can't we use Virtual memory on my big fat HDD I have on my Xbox instead.
Dunno if what i just said is possible but I just thought it might be?
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There was a project once called TuxZen for the DBox in Germany (66Mhz and 32Mb Ram)
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Just to add my $0.02.. I understand the early reluctance to build a web browser into XBMC because the original xbox hardware simply couldn't do it. However today I'm running XBMC on my AppleTV which has a 1Ghz CPU and 256 meg RAM. It isn't a power house but could easily run a browser.
More and more people are going to be building HTPC's with XBMC in mind and would like to be able to browse the web without having to exit or minimize XBMC to do it. If there were a web browser I'd personally get myself a DiNovo Mini for some basic web browsing. It'd be even cooler if there were a "mini" mode for incidental web browsing, like looking up a brand website after seeing it in a commercial or something ridiculous like that.
Most importantly it'd be nice if it was fully integrated into XBMC. Now, before anyone goes saying I could just start a web browser in the background, take into consideration that I don't run a window manager. The machine boots and launches X which starts up XBMC, no Gnome or KDE to get in the way. I really like it like that, there's less overhead, no popups to get in the way.
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Hey all!
First time poster here... Anyway, other than the good old Xbox, I also have a Nintendo DS, which runs Opera as a browser. Now, this was an internet browser released by Nintendo as a 'Game' to take advantage of the Wifi capabilities, but the folks behind DSOrganise, have also integrated into their homebrew software an internet browser as well!
And the hardware specifications of the Nintendo DS (1 x 67mhz + 1 x 33mhz, with 4MB ram).... now I'm no hardware expert, but I'd bet that the XBox has a little more happening under the bonnet than the humble NDSL...
Even the Nokia 6120 has 369 mhz with 64MB Ram and that fully supports flash and Flash Lite.... So a simple web browser should be within reach..... in theory.
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xbox has like 64mb of ram and like a 733mhz processor or something like that, running a browser would be easyyyy butttt integrating it into xbmc would take up more ram and processor speed so it MIGHT not work that well. i definetely want to get a browser built into my xbmc, idc if its slow, linksbox is shit (no offense to creator). i want a browser integrated with flash (w/e version can play imeem.com and youtube.com) and java and can save files, launch a media file directly from the source. xbmc developers could probably start selling xbmc if they did that :p
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Hi,
Is there any browser like script that i can browse the internet with?
Thanks,
G
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There is an app for xbox in general but. linksbox or something off the top of my head.
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Thank you very much guys :-)