Thread: Fennec 14.0 and more (updated 2012-08-04)
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mooninite is offline mooninite
2012-08-08 , 21:31
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#126
Originally Posted by maartenmk View Post
The CSSU-Thumb2 repo (see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84829) contains Fennec 17. That is the fastest version I've tried so far (and I tried a lot of them).
I did switch off Javascript, which seems to make a big difference so maybe that is the main reason.

The difference may also in part be due to the Thumb2 improvements, so I am not sure if simply compiling Fennec 17 normally is useful.
You're not browsing the web if you have JavaScript turned off. Every modern web page that a normal person would go to uses JavaScript.

Fennec on ARM is dead. The Gecko engine will still receive updates so we can render the latest web sites and use addons, etc, but as far as performance and UI Mozilla will never touch it. While it is admirable that one person is attempting to get a Qt build working I'd recommend that they use their free time on a newer mobile platform with faster, newer hardware - which would certainly be running Android.