Comments on: Firefox Mobile Beta Will Hit Android Market Later this Month

By: Li

Li — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:23:07 +0000

Ah, so you've used the recent builds which are around 17MB and faster than any other mobile browser b/c of tracemonkey and hardware acceleration?
Come on people, stop parroting the hip tech trends and actually try these things!

By: Gary Wilkinson

Gary Wilkinson — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:59:41 +0000

It's because Dolphin etc use the stock browsers rendering engine (webkit) whilst Firefox brings along its own (Gecko) so it will naturally have to be quite large, Opera Mobile isn't small either.

By: waegwanjohn

waegwanjohn — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:45:42 +0000

FireFox Beta 4 solved some problems for me. On my job I have some https site that have internal sliders that I need to access several times a day I have tried all of the other browsers and then some mentioned on this site to include an earlier version of FireFox for Droid and none of them would #1 log on the the https consistantly and #2 work the sliders within the websites every time and smoothly. For sure, the FireFox Beta 4 is slow and I will use the Android 2.2 Stock for most browsing, reading news etc. But in my particular case I have to give FireFox beta 4 thumbs up.

By: Drox2k

Drox2k — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:11:33 +0000

I'm not even going to bother to download it this time. I have such bad taste in my mouth from their last attempt which was super slow and majorly sucked all together.

By: Judah Richardson

Judah Richardson — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:45:15 +0000

Hopefully they reduced the size of the app … way too big for a browser. Also, when I'm mobile speed >>> features, and the stock browser rules at that. This coming from a fan of Firefox on the desktop.

By: Tony Tran

Tony Tran — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:49:51 +0000

Yes, I still waiting for this browser to using on my phone. I feel bored with the default one.

By: Mr. Joe

Mr. Joe — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:44:02 +0000

I tried it back when it was Fennec and tried it twice when it was Firefox. All I got from it was lag, force close, and just complete unstable.

By: Jeff Simpson

Jeff Simpson — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:49:16 +0000

"Can it compete with Dolphin, xScope and the rest of those well-established browser options?"

No. It can't even compete with the stock browser. It's too big and too slow.

By: picaso86

picaso86 — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:46:01 +0000

no thank you…have you seen the size file?

By: NathanS

NathanS — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:45:06 +0000

I've had it on my Moto Droid since the first Fennac Alpha was released.
Sadly, its too slow to really use. Yes, I've kept up with the various updates and the Beta releases.
At times the phone becomes nearly unresponsive.

Loaded it on my wifes Droid 2 and it works fine there. I guess the 60% speed increase of the D2 helps.

I do hope they get the file size down and the speed up.
Reasons?
Extensions, bookmark sync, just to begin with.

By: Pope Wilson

Pope Wilson — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:32:50 +0000

When Firefox first rolled onto the scene, they were known for the small package .. I thought it was ironic when this one came around at a dominating 30 mb's haha

By: D3fault121

D3fault121 — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:17:07 +0000

I hope they made it a smaller file size. Last beta that came out was huge like 30mb and was almost un usable.

By: chrismcconkey

chrismcconkey — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:01:36 +0000

It would be nice to have Firefox on my OG Droid, I would finally get to admin some of the sites that I have to deal with.

By: El El Kool J

El El Kool J — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:49:48 +0000

video runs fine on it, speed is acceptable, rom devs never try to change it, oh and its FREE
Stock browser ftw!!

By: Timoh

Timoh — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:48:27 +0000

Not just you, I agree.

As I type this from firefox at work…