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- delafield, on 03/20/2009, -0/+14Maemo OS2008 for the Nokia n800 and n810 is derived from the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
- blooby, on 03/19/2009, -0/+10Hoped they would have released it for a few more platforms by now.
- hardeep1singh, on 03/19/2009, -4/+14Give me the Symbian version or it didn't happen.
- bloodqc, on 03/20/2009, -0/+9http://blog.mozilla.com/blassey/2009/02/10/fennec- ...
- Sammi84, on 03/20/2009, -0/+5This is going to be sweet on the OpenPandora handheld.
- hadak, on 03/20/2009, -0/+4OOOOH. blackberry please :)
- atm259, on 03/20/2009, -1/+5I am using it as I type this message, on windows. And everything is actually going pretty smooth. Port it to android!
- TyIzaeL, on 03/20/2009, -4/+8What does this have to do with Linux?
- delafield, on 03/20/2009, -0/+4Nokia n810 != phone
Nokia n810 = MID - inactive, on 03/20/2009, -1/+4I'll get excited when they start offering it for other phones. Seriously, its been 6 months and they still only have this Nokia client?
- Snowierstorm, on 03/20/2009, -1/+4It would be great if they could manage to port it to the iPhone/iTouch. Except they would have to some how convince apple to allow their app in the store. Unless it was released for jailbroken iPhones/iTouches only, which seems like the only plausible way for them to get the app out there, given the current way apple dictates what goes in their store and what doesn't.
- beersnob, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3Oh please port to iTouch....can't stand the frakkin safari browser on there!
- xizax, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3Using it right now on my N810 and N800, and it has the best GUI of any browser out there, desktop, mobile, or anything. It clearly is quicker than firefox on the N810, and probably as fast or faster than opera when I had it on the N800. For anybody with an N8X0 out there is a no brainer...fck safari ;)P
- garionw, on 03/20/2009, -0/+3I think you're round the wrong way.... It would be Symbian (the biggest), then Win Mobo, and can't see it ever on the iPhone 'cause it competes with Safari, and if its one think Apple doesn't want is competition
- ssjtoma, on 03/20/2009, -0/+2I have an N810 and its awesome. Built in GPS, Skype.. and its Linux... who needs a real phone?
- xErath, on 03/21/2009, -0/+2Mozilla's bloated and terrible slow codebase barely runs on the nokia tablet. Just watch the videos: fennec is terribly underperformant. They also don't have adaptive zooming or small screen rendering is makes it completely useless on a small screen.
So, no worth using this crap.... - colonelxc, on 03/20/2009, -0/+2Um, apple did allow third party browsers in the app store a couple months ago. So far the only ones I've seen so far just use the built in webkit api and tack on a different interface though.
- waspinator, on 03/20/2009, -0/+2can't run in Linux without GLIBC_2.4 dependency, something not found in many distributions. They really should build it against things people use.
- andycr512, on 03/20/2009, -0/+2Just out of curiosity, what don't you like about it?
- SteveMax, on 03/20/2009, -0/+2They are not phones, either. Those Maemo devices are "Internet tablets", or PDAs; they have no GSM radios.
- andycr512, on 03/20/2009, -0/+2Well, I got excited when they chose to release the first pre-beta version for my WM phone. The excitement faded quickly when the software keyboard didn't work, it took ages to get to any page, and once you got there you couldn't scroll. Hopefully they give it some more time in the oven.
- RobotBuddha, on 03/20/2009, -0/+1It's a minor point, but I don't like how it does the shifting browser animation if I click a link on the springboard. If it's an icon in with my apps, give it as much of the feel of an app as possible.
- SteveMax, on 03/20/2009, -0/+1Mobile phones can't run desktop browsers. I still prefer the Webkit-based ones (the S60 browser is fantastic), but competition is always good.
- ldog, on 03/20/2009, -1/+2Android and iPhone are doing well with their webkit based browsers. The 4 and 500 Mhz ARM processors in the things seem to be plenty to render pages just fine.
Would be interesting to see comparisons of this new mozilla mobile browser to webkit and opera mobile. - tehsackman, on 03/23/2009, -0/+1Jokes get taken too seriously on Digg =\
- theOster, on 03/20/2009, -1/+1lolwut
- PhillyOC, on 03/20/2009, -1/+1Dugg for being innocuously sartorial.
- ethana2, on 03/20/2009, -1/+1Firefox is The Linux Browser.
- CalcProgrammer1, on 03/20/2009, -14/+12WINDOWS. MOBILE.
This project has been DEAD for months now. I remember they promised a Windows Mobile build within "a week". This was over half a year ago. In that time, I have found that Opera Mobile 9.5 works well on my PDA, supports Flash, and doesn't require years worth of waiting. Sorry Mozilla, as awesome as Firefox is, Fennec is a failure, just like all your previous attempts at making a mobile browser. If you can't get platform support then you fail, and supporting a platform that very few people have is probably the worst idea ever. Do you think Microsoft writes each new version of Windows for x86 just for fun? If they released Windows 7 for SPARC machines and nothing else, I doubt it'd sell too well. You have to write your programs for platforms that everyone has access to, and the most common mobile platforms are Windows Mobile, the iPhone/iTouch, and maybe Symbian. - sibeth, on 03/20/2009, -4/+1if the title has the word Linux in it, its top page 99%. now the fact that the text is related to linux is pure coincidence :P
- smindsrt, on 03/19/2009, -8/+3I use my mobile web browser more than my desktop
- FyberOptic, on 03/20/2009, -8/+3Mozilla/Firefox has always had the problem of being bloated. This has improved a lot after version 3.x came along, but some of the stuffing is still there. I really can't see them stripping it down into anything still usable on the limited hardware of a portable device such as this. Hell, it doesn't even run awesome on a slower PC. From the example videos I saw, the whole thing practically freezes for a few seconds as it's trying to render the page. And even that takes too long. It's still a beta, sure, but the betas of Safari and Opera I've seen in the past on mobiles were never that bad.
Opera is pretty much the only mobile browser I'd consider at the moment. The mobile versions of their browser is their bread and butter, and is how they can give the desktop version away for free. They've been developing it for a long time, and they're capable of putting it on pretty much any device very quickly. They even put a version on the OLPC, which ran very well compared to what came with it, but it couldn't ship with it, because they refused to pack in anything closed-source. Opera's dev team has always prided themselves on speed and memory usage, so their mobile version is certainly no exception. Those awards it keeps winning aren't for nothing.
I mean yeah, Mozilla will release Fennec eventually, regardless of whether it performs awesomely or not. But when it comes down to it, will you choose brand loyalty and go with Mozilla, or go with an already proven technology from Opera? It's not like there's plugins to consider here. You're going purely by functionality now. - tehsackman, on 03/20/2009, -11/+3Fennec - pronounced like penis with an F
- dspero, on 03/20/2009, -11/+2Who Cares? One OS, one phone? Big deal. Skyfire works great for me on my Win Mobile phone.
- syntaxgs, on 03/20/2009, -18/+1sorry but I Don,t See the big deal of having a Smaller Browser when you can just have full Fire Fox or InternetExplore 6, wich is still VERY light weight for compare to the more bloated browser like the newer Fire Fox or the Newer internetExplore 7
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