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Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
Just installed Firefox and been playin' around with it a bit.

Early 1st impression...it's a 1.0 release for sure but shows real promise. Loads much slower than MicroB (hard to beat instantly) but nearly as fast loading pages once it gets going. Handles some sites better than MicroB, particularly our company's webportal, a very Good Thing for me. Good looking fonts. Tabbed browsing is nice. I enabled Flash and it played some YouTube videos fine. No crashes in a hour or so of foolin' around.

On the other hand...bookmark management is poor. I can't find a way to organize bookmarks into folders and no import of bookmarks from MicroB. Very weird bug with the on-screen keyboard picking up stuff from the Notes app. No Firefox icon - or maybe that's just my installation, I can't believe they'd leave that out.

A big thanks to the Mozilla guys for making an effort to support Maemo. It's not ready to replace MicroB as my default browser, especially 'til they get bookmarks worked out. But I'm leaving it installed if for no other reasons than accessing the company webportal and piddle with as it develops.
Yes, it plays Youtube fine, but no other Flash type content even after following the instructions to enable the function. Strange, but Youtube in Firefox seems to play better than the built in browser.

I kind of prefer it to the built in browser- if I could get the Flash to work, I probably would use as my main browser.