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Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android

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Re: Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

gkoberger wrote: post #2

My two favorite features: - Tabs are actually usable. - With Sync, you can walk away from your desktop and have your tabs (and history/bookmarks/passwords) on your phone. (Disclaimer: I work at Mozilla, but have nothing to do with mobile.)

>- Tabs are actually usable.

What does that mean exactly?

Re: Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android

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Post by windsurfer »

gkoberger wrote: post #20
windsurfer wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure? According to this: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/Sync/1.1/Setup it says the passphrase you use is sent in the clear (over HTTPS) to mozilla every time you get the data. That implies that while the data may be stored encrypted client-side, it's decrypted or at least verified server-side.

That is an old page, back when it was a labs project called Weave. Try this: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/what-firefox-sync#w_what... There is absolutely no way for Mozilla to get your data, even if subpoenaed. And, if for some reason you still don't trust it, you can easily set it up on your own server.

Okay, how do I set it up on my own server? If that link is old, where's the updated one?

Re: Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android

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Post by scotth »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #22
gkoberger wrote: post #2

My two favorite features: - Tabs are actually usable. - With Sync, you can walk away from your desktop and have your tabs (and history/bookmarks/passwords) on your phone. (Disclaimer: I work at Mozilla, but have nothing to do with mobile.)

>- Tabs are actually usable. What does that mean exactly?

That tabs generally aren't on smart phones?

Re: Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android

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Post by trotsky »

Does anyone know what the hardware requirements are? The market will let me install it on a samsung galaxy but not an lg optimus. Is it the cpu speed of the optimus or something else? I can't seem to find a list of requirements anywhere.

EDIT: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android#System_Req...

It is the CPU generation. "Release builds of Firefox require a phone with an ARMv7 processor" and the Optimus has an ARMv6.

Is anyone from mozilla or otherwise familiar with how badly it would run if I built it myself with a v6 target?

Re: Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android

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Post by nextparadigms »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #8
absconditus wrote: post #3

Less powerful hardware does not seem like the best place for Firefox.

Independent test by people like Microsoft and Cnet seem to indicate that Firefox is doing well with resource usage. What makes you think otherwise?: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/03/28/browser-power-... http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20047314-12.html

Microsoft is an independent source? What?

Re: Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android

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Post by jmillikin »

I've been using the beta for a month or so, and it's miles better than the stock Android browser. Notable features:

- supports and

- fixed-size divs (used for multiple scrollable page sections) work properly

- Pages are rendered practically identically to desktop Firefox/Chrome; the Android browser sometimes does weird things to pages with complex CSS.

While I haven't noticed any improvements in page rendering speed, but the browser UI itself is more responsive.

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