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dwightmckie
October 8, 2010, 05:41 AM
Mozilla has released its first mobile Firefox 4 beta, offering test versions of the open source browser for both Google Android and Nokia Maemo.

Codenamed Fennec 2.0, the mobile beta is based on the same Gecko layout engine as the desktop Firefox 4 beta, and it uses the latest Firefox Javascript engine ? including the new JagerMonkey extension. According to Mozilla's latest tests, it's "much faster" than the Google browser bundled with Android 2.1, and it's "starting to overtake" the Android 2.2 browser on the WebKit SunSpider suite.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/08/firefox_4_beta_for_android_and_maemo/
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vylle
October 8, 2010, 06:15 AM
i have heard about fennex for a long time, even had the beta! from what i know of it it takes up ALOT of HD space (around 14 MB), and crashes alot - not very good for G1 or other lower end android phones but probably amazing for droid/nexus and onwards

kalel17
October 8, 2010, 08:44 AM
Heard of it alot too, will probably just blow up the G1. Early builds of this thing required truck loads of processing power

ram130
October 8, 2010, 05:19 PM
Firefox won't work on a dated g1 with that lil memory and processor! Anyways..downloading now!

zerodeth
October 11, 2010, 10:02 AM
just crashes on my magic, not force crash just plain old crash

ram130
October 11, 2010, 11:49 PM
just crashes on my magic, not force crash just plain old crash

yes exactly..because the g1 does not have enough memory PERIOD...and trust me this beta is not worth anyones time....wait until the next beta or the last one..