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oh a Saviour has come. Adblock plus for mobile. This is the one killer tool i have been waiting for.
If you have a rooted phone, you can always use AdFree. It adds entries to your /etc/hosts so it blocks ads in all apps.
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 ha…
Building for ARMv7-only lets us use the Thumb-2 instruction set, which results in code that is smaller, faster, and uses less memory.
We used to have ARMv6 builds available, but at this point the browser is not really optimized enough to run well on older (or low-end) devices. And since we were not actively testing or supporting those builds, the code now has some crashing bugs (probably related to the JavaScript JIT) that show up only on ARMv6 builds. Without fixing those bugs, you can't actually run Firefox on ARMv6.
We continue to reduce memory and CPU usage, and if it it gets good enough to support these devices then we might start working on it for a future version.
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 ha…
Hi, I'm a member of the mobile Firefox team at Mozilla. Building for ARMv7-only lets us use the Thumb-2 instruction set, which results in code that is smaller, faster, and uses less memory. We used to have ARMv6 builds available, but at this point the browser is not really optimized enough to run well on older (or low-end) devices. And since we were not actively testing or supporting those builds, the code now has so…
This is awesome news..just trying it out. Minor quibble why is the installer a Huge 14 Mb in Size? On a desktop FF4 is a 12Mb download so what gives?
We're working on various ways to reduce the size, including moving the locale files into separate files that are downloaded at installation time.
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Just tried it. It does!
Wow this is huge news! Others might not appreciate it but that means it's the first mobile browser that rich, WYSIWYG editors like CKEditor and TinyMCE will finally work! (iPhone and native Android do NOT support contentEditable despite being a webkit branch) This is history repeating itself where Mozilla/Firefox competition will force other browsers to finally improve their game.
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They've been working on a variety of performance indicators: http://blog.lassey.us/2011/03/29/mobile-firefox-performance-...
Yeah, that's the page I had read and was expecting perf that killed the Nexus S stock browser. But I'm not sure if its any better. Do you see better perf on your device? Are there some pages that show the perf delta more than others (besides Mozilla built showcase pages?).
(These performance tests are based on a JS library to do efficient dictionary lookups; more info at https://github.com/mckoss/lookups)
In other areas, like startup speed, we know that Firefox for Android is still catching up to other browsers. It's improved a lot over the last year, and we'll keep on improving it.
oh a Saviour has come. Adblock plus for mobile. This is the one killer tool i have been waiting for.
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Wow this is huge news! Others might not appreciate it but that means it's the first mobile browser that rich, WYSIWYG editors like CKEditor and TinyMCE will finally work! (iPhone and native Android do NOT support contentEditable despite being a webkit branch) This is history repeating itself where Mozilla/Firefox competition will force other browsers to finally improve their game.
When did that happen the first time? As I recall, Chrome started the second browser wars, which even caused IE to try again. FF was unable to do that.
(Remember when IE had 90% market share, and web developers routinely wrote IE-only code?)