Mobile Firefox? - Page 4

drnezzy · #31 (**permalink**) 05-11-2008, 04:44 PM

Just got my beta invite early this week too. I've used Opera Mini for the last 6 months or so and have gotten used to its little idiosyncracies. Skyfire definitely makes loaded pages look better with its built-in Flash support, but I'm not too impressed past that.

As stated above, it takes some time for text to clear up after zooming in, and I've been less than impressed with the support for embedded video. Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting really smooth video, but even the audio skips a good bit. I'm pretty sure that it's eating my battery alive whenever I use it, too.

To sum up, I'll keep playing around with Skyfire, but if I NEED to get something quick, I'm much more likely to go with Opera Mini.

ajm144k · #32 (**permalink**) 06-02-2008, 09:01 AM

so...anyone wanna talk about mobile firefox instead of other random browsers???

i came here wondering what mobile firefox was all about and instead ended up hearing complaints about skyfire?

**Hafrust** · #33 (**permalink**) 06-02-2008, 10:02 AM

LOL...good luck with that! Browser threads always get hijacked by Skyfire junk...even though there are good threads specifically for Skyfire. The upcoming mobile Firefox browser is called Fennec. If you google it, you'll find some info that might be helpful.

ajm144k · #34 (**permalink**) 06-02-2008, 04:48 PM

yeah i actually ended up signing up for skyfire after reading a little bit on this thread... haha it sounded interesting figured why not sign up n wait

gmfeny · #35 (**permalink**) 06-02-2008, 04:56 PM

I thought the mobile firefox was called Minimo

**imneveral0ne** · #36 (**permalink**) 06-02-2008, 05:03 PM

i wonder if there is a version out leaked somewhere :-p

**imneveral0ne** · #37 (**permalink**) 06-02-2008, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by gmfeny

I thought the mobile firefox was called Minimo

that is the oldschool one that is no good :-\

**Hafrust** · #38 (**permalink**) 06-02-2008, 06:19 PM

If there is such a version, people better start sharing!

Loucks · #39 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by mecreyes

I have been using skyfire for a week now. Still prefer Opera.

I still think PIE is the worst browser for the Mogul.

I really like PIE for forums. Not so much for anything else. Still, when the trial expires I'll probably go back to Opera.

I'm excited about Fennec, though. It'd be nice to be able to use Greasemonkey on my Titan.

blisk · #40 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 04:37 AM

There is *NO* new version of Firefox mobile right now available for windows mobile. Minimo is horrible and is very old. There will be a new one as people said before, called Fennec, and they recently showed off a pre-alpha build for symbian at arstechnica but there are no other builds compiled except that pre-alpha for the symbian os. Even if there were, theres no installer, that's still in planning (at least for windows mobile). You could build it yourself, directions here. Just a warning I tired building firefox once (I'm not a programmer though) and after 3-4 hours I gave up. You could always it a shot but unless you know coding or are familiar with compiling code its going to be hard... and probably not worth it honestly.. its really early in development.

It looks like its going to be at least 4 months - their own road map has them 2 months behind schedule (probably due to firefox 3 being delayed since its based on that) with an alpha at the end of August... so that makes it October/November - before you see a build you can just install and try... and then who knows truely how useable that will be... mozilla is great with the useability of its early testing builds but it'll still be an early alpha. There's all sorts of information here about the project that is helpful. If anyone is interested in the UI mockups they're here. Some are pretty nice.