Firefox for Maemo RC3
We’re excited to bring you the third release candidate of Firefox for Maemo. Since RC2, we fixed several usability bugs that were found, as well as addressed a number of performance issues. Based on feedback we’ve received so far, we were able to find and fix several crash bugs. To improve page load times and responsiveness, we tuned a number of preferences and improved several algorithms. We’ve sped up zooming and made our panning even better.
If you’ve already got RC2 installed on your N900 or N810, you will be receiving a software update shortly. Otherwise, if you’re viewing this on your device, you can install it from here.
We’ve decided to disable plugin (not to be confused with add-ons, which are supported) support for this release. The Adobe Flash plugin used on many sites degraded the performance of the browser to the point where it didn’t meet our standards. If you wish to enable our experimental plugin support, you will be able to manually via about:config, but do so at your own risk. We are working on an add-on that will allow the user to have control of which sites to enable plugins for, as some sites, like YouTube, do work quite well.
As always, we’re looking for feedback and suggestions.
January 27, 2010 at 5:02 pm
[...] the feeble Flash problem (perhaps extensions, as Mozilla’s Mobile director Stuart Parmenter mentioned–than see Mozilla rush to complete Firefox before it’s truly ready for the public, and [...]
January 27, 2010 at 7:28 pm
[...] the feeble Flash problem (perhaps extensions, as Mozilla’s Mobile director Stuart Parmenter mentioned–than see Mozilla rush to complete Firefox before it’s truly ready for the public, and [...]
January 27, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Maybe if Adobe would relase an accelerated version of Flash that thake advantage from GPU, we would have less performance problem, don’t you think?
January 28, 2010 at 12:00 am
[...] note: Today, Mozilla released the third Firefox for Maemo Release Candidate. Check out Director of Mobile, Stuart Parmenter’s blog post reposted [...]
January 28, 2010 at 11:15 am
[...] A distanza di un mesetto dall’ultima release candidate 2, buone nuove per i possessori di Nokia N900 in attesa di provare Firefox sul proprio device. Mozilla ha infatti appena rilasciato la nuova Release Candidate 3. [...]
January 28, 2010 at 1:51 pm
[...] Pilgrim pointed out that even Mozilla is having to put Flash integration on hold for their Maemo version. I am reminded of a post by John Chen in the Flash Poor Performance on Max [...]