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I'm testing it right now on my n800, I have to say WOW, the slowness seems to be gone away ( I image that on the n900 must be beautiful), with beta5, sites load fast (not as tear xD but fast enough) but doesn't handle well flash (in fact i disabled it)...and the wave synk is WOW! xD very very good, I hope hat with beta 6 the flash will be better and be faster (for example using a compression like the opera turbo...but is still my dream xD)

I am not so impressed by Firefox for Maemo Beta 5 (= new name for Fennec) on my N810.

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2009/11...ta-5-released/

It still renders web paged too slow to be fun. Midori is better but also too slow for me. I am fed up with waiting for websites, today's smartphones do that better.

yes you are right is not as fast as webkit, but it's more accurate and have better add-ons, yea, maybe you have to wait 10\11 seconds for a page (in fact i use it only when on wifi...while tethered I use tear obviously) but you cannot comnpare it to the rendering of a cortex a8 devices (such as 3gs, n900 or hd2) they are another planet...

It's too slow and they broke something since the October 1 beta 4. I've built the beta 4 and the beta 5 and have verified that double-tap zooming is broken. Beta 5 has been broken since October. Cruise Wikipedia, it won't take long for you to see what I mean. Also, regardless of the beta, if you zoom into a center or right column and then attempt to page (spacebar on the n810 for instance), the browser slams against the left margin. This is relatively simple math, why can't they get this right? Combine that with the slowness and the crappy tab implementation and you get FAIL.

My home grown multi-tab Python webkit wrapper blows this piece of sh*t away for tablet browsing.

I've been playing with Firefox Mobile Beta 5 on my N810 and here are my thoughts:

-I really like the convention of flicking to the left or right sides of the screen to bring up toolbars. Screen real estate is at a premium on mobile devices and this seems like a good way to deal with that fact. This sort of UI convention will be really important on the even smaller screened n900.
-I use Weave on 5 different laptops/desktops and was looking forward to this in beta 5, but it doesn't appear to be functional for me.
-Looking forward to mobile add-ons, especially ones to disable/enable slow flash objects on a selective basis and to block adds.
-page rendering is pretty slow and I get lots of random pauses when trying to scroll around pages. Page layout is not great on some more complex sites like Amazon. Definite room for improvement here.
-Lots and lots of missing settings dialogs. Having to go into about:config is not a pleasant way to set a homepage.
-I like the double tap to zoom in and out.

This is still a very early effort for Mozilla and I look forward to seeing a more polished version in the future. I can't see myself using it much over the default browser at this point.

this just rocks! Ditching the Iphone for the ultimate browsing experience...

I really hope they get the speed soon to near the level of microb on n900.

Is that a realistic expectation?

They both use Mozilla code for the rendering engine, but (as I understand it) MicroB uses tight hand-coded C for the interface, while Mobile Firefox (Fennec) uses something more malleable (XUL and JavaScript) for its interface.

So isn't MicroB always going to be faster than Mobile Firefox?

Regards,
Roger

Fennec crashes when I'm using gmail.....

This is on my N900.

Well, I can hope that it gets close to N810 microB speed. I'm trying out these nightly builds, and now Fennecs feels horribly slower.