Can I quote you in my report for school?

Mmm, I see. I’m currently on holiday, and for some reason Meebo refuses to load (either new version or classic). I’m planning some sort of JavaScript driven engine for the next version, which will make updates much easier to handle. Thanks for pointing out the classic url!

Nurm,

Meebo updated their UI (drastically) and things are now visible (due to the id attribute changing on some key elements) that used to be hidden.

Luckily they provided a URL to their previous version at http://classic.meebo.com/ (no SSL at this subdomain, so don’t try it).

Could you let us know when this is fixed (or if it will be fixed)? I was thinking that this would be a good candidate for sticking the element ID’s for the ones you hide inside of the app.config to allow furture mods.

Yeah, I’m a dreamer.

;-}

Thanks for the great (free) app BTW…

[...] I’ve previously commented that I was working on Mozilla rendering support for my Chromeless Meebo Browser, well now it’s here. To enable it you will need my upgraded version of the Mozilla ActiveX Control and make some configuration changes by hand. [...]

Unfortunately there’s very little I can do about memory usage – the code I’ve actually written is fairly small and simple. Currently there’s a timer running 10 times a second to create the transparency, which I could very easily make run say only once a second. That should help with the CPU usage. Also using the Mozilla rendering engine instead of the Microsoft one helps. The graphics glitch is also something that’s really hard to do anything about, mainly because I’m using .Net’s GDI+ to do all the work.

It works pretty well, though 80+ MB of RAM & 20+% CPU is way too excessive for what it is. (I have 2GB total on a 2.2GHz P4.)

The other thing is that when you show the console is looks like a graphics glitch. That could really use some cleaning up.

KB917952 describes this issue. Looks like you need a patch from MS to work around this issue

FYI: I’m got code in the works that will allow you to use the Mozilla rendering engine instead of the Microsoft rendering engine

Mmm, I know. I’d be interested to know who much IE uses in comparison.

I’m pretty sure the 5% CPU is due to the timer checking the background colour to see what should be transparent every 100ms. What speed PC do you have?

Very Good. I’m impressed!

One thing I have noticed is that it uses 50MB+ of RAM and a constant 4/5% CPU.

Still good though. Thumbs up dude.