Today, I decided to try Google's new feature of allowing Android Messages to work in-browser on my Powerbook. I didn't have high hopes because of Google's track record of not having many web apps on the "light" side.
I'm happy to report that it works flawlessly! In TFF, its a little on the sluggish side, but not unbearable. The text-editor works probably about on par with the editor here on MacRumors. I haven't yet tried tweaking it with uMatrix since, (once again) knowing Google, there's not much that can be disabled without breaking the page, but there may be gains that could be made there.
Even better though, is that in Leopard Webkit, it works downright smoothly! Opening the emoji or GIF menus causes it to slow down some for me, but not unusably so, and using plain text shows no lag whatsoever.
I'm thrilled to have a way to message from my PPC that isn't stripped down in functionality (like iChat), or unbearably slow (like Facebook Messenger). So, if you're an Android user, and aren't using this feature yet, check it out. I don't think you'll be disappointed!
I'm happy to report that it works flawlessly! In TFF, its a little on the sluggish side, but not unbearable. The text-editor works probably about on par with the editor here on MacRumors. I haven't yet tried tweaking it with uMatrix since, (once again) knowing Google, there's not much that can be disabled without breaking the page, but there may be gains that could be made there.
Even better though, is that in Leopard Webkit, it works downright smoothly! Opening the emoji or GIF menus causes it to slow down some for me, but not unusably so, and using plain text shows no lag whatsoever.
I'm thrilled to have a way to message from my PPC that isn't stripped down in functionality (like iChat), or unbearably slow (like Facebook Messenger). So, if you're an Android user, and aren't using this feature yet, check it out. I don't think you'll be disappointed!