First Mobile Firefox enters home stretch (cnet) [LWN.net]

Over at cnet, Stephen Shankland looks at the upcoming release of "Fennec"—the codename for mobile Firefox. "Firefox has one big thing going for it, though: it's a close relative of the PC-based browser that today is used by about a quarter of people on the Web. [...] The link extends beyond brand familiarity. For one thing, mobile Firefox is based on the same code as the present Firefox 3.6--also a beta version due to finished by the end of 2009. For another, through a Mozilla service and browser plug-in called Weave, mobile Firefox synchronizes bookmarks, passwords, and even open tabs with the desktop version of the browser."

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First Mobile Firefox enters home stretch (cnet)

Posted Dec 9, 2009 23:35 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link]

I tried it on a N900, and while it seems like a nice browser, it is super slow, especially compared to the std. maemo browser (also Gecko based). I don't know if it's that system, but if not, Fennec is definitely not ready for prime time.