Mozilla Releases Fennec Alpha for N900 and Android
Mozilla Releases Fennec Alpha for N900 and Android
Posted 08/27/2010 at 1:34pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Mozilla has announced today that the first alpha release of Fennec (mobile Firefox) is ready for mass consumption on the N900, and Android 2.0+. The N900 version has already been posted on the Mozilla site, we expect the Android version to be up soon. One of the main selling points is full Fennec integration with Firefox Sync, a tool that can keep your tabs, history, and bookmarks synchronized across your devices.
Mozilla has been working to make the browser smoother, which is great news to anyone who tried the previous early preview builds. Fennec does this by keeping the browser UI in a separate process from the rendering engine. Actions like scrolling and zooming should get more fluid as the product moves toward a final release.
Mozilla has posted a vide demo of Fennec on Android. While it is looking much improved, they clearly have a way to go. This whole time, Google is improving the Android browser. By the time Fennec is done, it may have already been surpassed in features. Are you anxiously anticipating Fennec?
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Cache
August 30, 2010 at 11:02am
I like FF for the add-ons at home. Speed is decent enough for what I do (and really, who the hell is sitting around measuring how many milliseconds it takes to download the page while spending another 10 minutes reading at some lame-ass 6 words per minute for the same damn page they were waiting for?), and most browsers are pretty much up to speed at what the average human being does anyways.
That said, Fennec has been treated as a side-product that no one at Mozilla has ever been serious about. Fennec is treated like that uncle who is 'too handsy' and that only a couple people will talk to (Nortel and now Android). If you're using Blackberry, Apple, or Symbian, you may as well not exist. And frankly, until they ante up and make it something everyone can use, I'll stick with Opera Mobile as my OS of choice. It's not like Mozilla has been courting my business, at any rate.
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tornato7
August 27, 2010 at 1:56pm
It looks like those grey squares will appear when you scroll too fast while zoomed in in that browser... That's precisely why i hated the iphones browser. You spend all day looking at grey squares waiting for that section to load. sure, it's smoother scrolling, but at what cost?
monkeykid753
August 27, 2010 at 1:39pm
No Flash, no use-y. That's why I use the stock browser... Flash is a beautiful thing... Especially when I Flash games with my Swype arrow keys on my DX.
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