Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-28 Thread Thomas Clavier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary a écrit : > Has anyone installed Fennec yet? 8 days later ... i test it in many cases and globally performance are very poor: - - load too long at launch - - too many memory with only 1 tab - - no information about work in progress : no progress

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-22 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Ryan Abel wrote: > On Oct 21, 2008, at 9:09 AM, John Holmblad wrote: >> If The ~6.5x performance gain of Fennec over Microb as asserted in the >> Aris Technica article holds as this product moves to production then I >> will vote with my "install apps" button soon thereafter. > > It's onl

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-21 Thread Quim Gil
ext Ryan Abel wrote: > On Oct 21, 2008, at 9:09 AM, John Holmblad wrote: > >> If The ~6.5x performance gain of Fennec over Microb as asserted in the >> Aris Technica article holds as this product moves to production then I >> will vote with my "install apps" button soon thereafter. > > > It's

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-21 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 21, 2008, at 9:09 AM, John Holmblad wrote: > If The ~6.5x performance gain of Fennec over Microb as asserted in the > Aris Technica article holds as this product moves to production then I > will vote with my "install apps" button soon thereafter. It's only a JavaScript improvement, not n

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-21 Thread John Holmblad
Quim, thanks for sharing the facts of that time line. In my experience R&D projects that do not reach the "commercial success" stage of their life cycle for whatever reason, can, nonetheless, produce downstream benefits for the "investing" corporation. Until I read this discussion thread I

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-20 Thread Quim Gil
ext Fernando Cassia wrote: > I do remember about the Nokia funding. Yeah it made very little sense > to fund Mozilla then choose Opera. But corporations do those things... > I'm getting used to it. Indeed, corporations better invest in research on many interesting technologies available in order

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-20 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My suspects: > > Years ago, Nokia started a project to get a full linux device running > gtk based apps, with matchbox window manager and gecko based browser. > That's how minimo started, funded by a R&D

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-20 Thread Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente
I would like pointing out that Minimo started as a project to get gecko based browser running in linux based devices, and first versions ran in Familiar/GPE based devices months before windowsce version was released. My suspects: Years ago, Nokia started a project to get a full linux device runni

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 20, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Mark wrote: > I can't recommend installing Fennec on *any* device. It will screw > with other things. I can't recall the details, but I had to re-flash > my N800 after installing Fennec, because not only was it useless > without a hardware keyboard, it changed the beha

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-20 Thread Gary
Mark wrote: > Do yourself a favor and wait until the full Firefox Mobile is available. It is alpha software, I suppose, but I got the impression that this is a one point oh alpha release and there were some improvements made over prior alpha releases. Just out of curiosity, should it work on an N8

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-20 Thread Mark
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Fernando Cassia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Has anyone installed Fennec yet? >> >> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0a1/releasenotes/ >> http://osnews.com/print/20411/Fennec_Mobile_Browser

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-20 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 20, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I'm not surprised AT ALL to see them mention the N810 only. I wonder > if there's ANYTHING that makes it NOT RUN on a N800. The virtual keyboard behavior is intermittent. It works, but currently not all that well. > Or perhaps the Mozilla t

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-20 Thread Christer Eliasson
Yes i installed Fennec, but i cant make it work. Dunno whats wrong though, anyone with any suggestions?? //Chris 20 okt 2008 kl. 20.07 skrev Fernando Cassia: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Has anyone installed Fennec yet? >> >> http://www.mozilla.org/pr

Re: Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-20 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone installed Fennec yet? > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0a1/releasenotes/ > http://osnews.com/print/20411/Fennec_Mobile_Browser_from_Mozilla Thanks for the pointer... I'm not surprised AT ALL to see them ment

Fennec vs MicroB

2008-10-20 Thread Gary
Has anyone installed Fennec yet? http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0a1/releasenotes/ http://osnews.com/print/20411/Fennec_Mobile_Browser_from_Mozilla ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo