Firefox For Maemo RC3 Now Available, Flash Disabled!!

[Apocalypso]

Firefox For Maemo RC3 Now Available, Flash Disabled!!



Earlier this morning the Mozilla has pushed out the third release candidate (RC3) of F of Firefox mobile and gets one step closer to deliver the final version of their mobile browser for Maemo-based devices.

They have managed to fix several usability bugs that were found, as well as address a number of performance issues and fix several crash bugs based on your feedback.

They have also tuned a number of preferences and improved several algorithms to improve page load times and responsiveness as well as spe... .. .

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Sincerely yours,
Teo

[ROLAN900D]

They are working hard on the Maemo board Teo!

[Nokia 5700]

Why cant they make an option to enable or disable Flash?
Or even easier: having it as a plugin.
It would simplify their work alot.

[Mikey Tommo]

so whats it like, how stable is it. how does it compare to the default browser?

[Crashdamage]

Early 1st impression...it's a 1.0 release for sure but shows real promise. Good start on a very usable UI. Loads slower than MicroB but about as fast loading pages once it gets going. Actually handles some sites better than MicroB, (and some worse) particularly our company's webportal, a very Good Thing for me. Good looking fonts. Tabbed browsing is nice. I enabled Flash and it played some YouTube videos and stuff fine. (Hint: If you enable flash, install Adblock Plus.) Pretty stable, only one crash in a few hours or so of foolin' around. Hasn't caused a reboot or other nasty effects.

On the other hand...bookmark management is poor. No way to organize bookmarks into folders and no import of bookmarks from MicroB. Very weird bug with the on-screen keyboard picking up stuff from the Notes app. No copying of text - should be in the next release. Sometimes I miss swirl-zoom, but either double-tapping or Ctrl + Up/Down works well.

The more I use it the more I like it. With flash enabled and the memory cache doubled from 1024 to 2048 it's ok. Yeah, it's still a little raw but even so still probably the 2nd best mobile browser I've used, after MicroB of course. But I went ahead and installed Browser Switchboard and replaced MicroB with Firefox as my default browser, if for no other reasons than accessing the company webportal and piddling with as it develops. Another release or two (fix bookmarks!) and it will be terrific.