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Re: Fennec 4 beta 3

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Originally Posted by mbrubeck (Post 871892)

MicroB is also pre-launched when the OS starts up. (MicroB's "browserd" process runs silently in the background all the time, so that browser windows can be opened faster.)

There's been some work on letting Fennec pre-start in the background like MicroB does: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572329

I would be very glad if I could prevent MicroB, image-viewer, calendar, modest and others from such pre-launching. Is there a way to do it? I don't mind slow opening of window, and I dislike running a lot of applications in background when I use none of them.

Re: Fennec 4 beta 3

fennec beta 4 released anybody tried it?

Re: Fennec 4 beta 3

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Originally Posted by raaj13 (Post 922343)

fennec beta 4 released anybody tried it?

Link? I don't know the current repo for FF anymore.

Re: Fennec 4 beta 3

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Originally Posted by cincibluer6 (Post 922351)

Link? I don't know the current repo for FF anymore.

fremantle-qt>>ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/repos/trunk_en-US/dists/fremantle-qt/extras/binary-armel/
fremantle >>ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/repos/trunk_en-US/dists/fremantle/extras/binary-armel/

Re: Fennec 4 beta 3

Iunno, seems like the ff I had before. Kinda slow, slow startup, mobile site versions..

Iunno, opera and microb feel faster and easier.

Re: Fennec 4 beta 3

have installed beta 4 today and every site with flash content crashes.

Re: Fennec 4 beta 3

I'm gonna give it a shot, seems like a beta 4 release shouldn't have this crashing issue.

Re: Fennec 4 beta 3

What about WebGL.

Is it implemented?

Re: Fennec 4 beta 3

I am using the fennec 4 beta since beta 1 and I'm upgrading it every few days to the latest nightly build.

Its really fast to use already, and scrolling seems even smoother than with microb. Its also using slightly less memory (quite incredible) and I'm not even counting the mem usage of the browserd daemon that's always running.

Start-up time is ok, though not quite as fast as microB (and I doubt that it will ever be as fast as microb as it has its browserd daemon running all the time). But on the other hand I observed that while microb starts really fast, it takes a long time until it loads the first site, so I think that it still has to load its browsing engine. Therefore I think it doesn't really take any longer to display the first site on fennec even if the GUI starts up slower.

There are still some shortcomings though:
-There's no possibility to enable the mouse pointer you can activate to select text.
-Flash (should be fine later on though)
-not all plugins are working right now
-the chat panel in facebook (and similar panels on few other sites)
aren't staying on the bottom of the screen when scrolling

I still prefer to use fennec instead of microb, except for some sites like facebook or when I need to copy some text, etc...

Re: Fennec 4 beta 3

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Originally Posted by raaj13 (Post 922363)

Those are nightly trunk builds. Beta 4 is not even in candidate stage yet. There are a lot of blocking bugs still outstanding:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist...-fennec:2.0b4+

Public released builds are placed here:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/