I am quite impressed with the performance of firefox on the N9. This version is a big improvement.

Also I noticed Firefox allows you to browse your devices file structure through a windows like dialog box (which the native browser does not support). I struggled to upload a photo but the functionality is there.

In fact reading all this "Fennec will support this os and that framework"...

I would not mind having a device booting straight into Firefox.
Firefox add ons section being the app store.
What would be the price of Java overhead on today's dual core / 1GB devices?

@ste-phan,

What does Firefox have to do with Java?

Then you might be interested in following B2G (Boot to Gecko) progress: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G

I would mind. It's one the reasons why we do have dual core/1GB devices. As a browser it's ok, I can restart it when it has eaten up all my RAM and 2GB swap, but I don't want to have that leaky resource hog as my OS, I already have one.

My boss likes to talk about the Moore's law. Lately he's started to add "The Great Moore’s Law Compensator" to that arsenal.

I was wondering if there was anyway to load the full version of gmail with fennec and likely regular firefox plug-ins with it. The basic html version doesn't allow for landline calls (hence it might require the plug-in) and google voice doesn't seem to be an option here in Canada.

Making landline calls requires using Google Talk plugin, which Google released for x86/x86_64 architecture. I don't think ARM versions of this plugin are available. So far calls aren't going through JavaScript VM, so without a plugin - it won't work. In some future, JavaScript VoIP will mature, and Google is planning to use it: http://code.google.com/p/webrtc/
Not quite yet though.

Anyone else having an inability to load the libxpcom.so library when trying to launch Firefox on the n9?

What are your errors exactly? Please report issues in the main thread:
http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=3647

Firefox 11.0~a1 [fennec-22-11-2011_15-mozilla-central]