Re: Firefox Browser is out!!!!
 

I have to agree - I will happily sacrifice a little speed for a better feature set - but the latest release is beyond slow. Sometimes taking 10x as long to render a page as MicroB.

While I appreciate what firefox is trying to do with the added functionality - they cannot lose sight of the fact that the primary duty of a browser is to view web pages.

Re: Firefox Browser is out!!!!
 

To all the people groaning about firefox/fennec, you do realize that microb is built upon them, don't you? It is using xulrunner which is from the firefox/mozilla project.

Re: Firefox Browser is out!!!!
 

While I appreciate what firefox is trying to do with the added functionality - they cannot lose sight of the fact that the primary duty of a browser is to view web pages.[/QUOTE]
i"m with you on this it's needs more work have you seen how it works with youtube i'm just and end user, so i'm sure a lot was put into it but compared to the rest of microB out man o man its not looking good as far as user friendly, wonder what those guys over at firefox are doing during work hours :)

Re: Firefox Browser is out!!!!
 

You have firmware 51-1? Wow...i wonder what it improves over the retail 42.11... i guess you can't tell, hey? Can you atleast say when will it be out?

Re: Firefox Browser is out!!!!
 

Near Me is definately using GPS...it returns the house numbers on my street.

Re: Firefox Browser is out!!!!
 

Yes, and while they share a lot of common code there are also obvious differences (in particular, the UI) which result in MicroB giving the superior browsing experience.

Obviously Firefox has a newer build of gecko than MicroB, which may explain the increased instability of Firefox. I had Firefox 1.0rc1 close with no warning about 5 times in 15 minutes, whereas MicroB has never done that to me in 4 weeks. In fact, 1.0b6pre was more stable than 1.0rc1.

Nokia have done a much better job with MicroB than Mozilla have done with Firefox. Period.

Re: Firefox Browser is out!!!!
 

Can't tell (much) and I have no idea when it will be out (when it's ready, I guess).

Have a look in Bugzilla to find out what bugs are fixed in version "5.0+"... battery life is significantly improved though, which is great.

There is no additional functionality in this "preview" release, just core bug fixes. Hopefully the public release will include new functionality (in particular portrait mode etc.).

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Okay but this device is one and far as I know the only one with this browser, We would expect the best from it you can lie and say it function like you hope it would. There's a lot of other device no way as advance as the n900 and everything about it should carry the same Reputation great powerful and reliable, Lets raise the bar, this isnt the n800,even our beta should be the best.I know I'm talking alot of sh*t for a guy who dont develop or write codes, but come on I would love the n900 to make its name in the end user best device list, it cant be the best just for power users

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Cool, i'm looking forward. Hopefully it will be good and out soon :) Btw, browser portrait? Anways, thank you for the reply!

Re: Firefox Browser is out!!!!
 

Hm, I read a lot of critical words in this thread. Firefox for maemo5 is not in a final state but it's significant improved. My impressions:

+ scrolling is nearly as smooth as it is in microb if the a site is rendered completely
+ featured extensions are working fine.
+ AdblockPlus works without complaint and is configurable in the same way as it does in the desktop version
+ youtube works fine

- Initial start takes more than 10 seconds - that's the most annoying thing for me
- If AdblockPlus is activated it takes some extra seconds
- scrolling stumbles if site is not rendered completely
- On screen keyboard does not work correctly - this was better in older releases, as Milhouse already wrote