For our N900 folks who have been trying out the RCs, give the third a try. Location bar, panning, zooming, and tile prefetching performance have all been tweaked. The net result is a large step ahead in terms of daily browser use. We’ve made some good strides in these final releases before 1.0, and if you’ve tried Firefox for Maemo before, you will notice.
One other thing: we’ve turned off Flash and are keeping it off for 1.0. We tried hard to get Flash performant, consistent, and stable in 1.0, but at the end of the day it wasn’t up to our standard of quality. At the cusp of releasing, a hard decision was made to cut out a bullet point for the sake of usability. We have a stopgap solution in the works targeted particularly at YouTube (because it’s the one Flash site that works pretty well and adds a lot of value), and we still want Flash in mobile Firefox long term.
1.0, here we come!
As soon as I read the announce, I update my fennec and xulrunner packages and now, I’m no longer able to run firefox on
the n900. I have tried twice to remove fennec and xulrunner and re-install them but I’m stuck with:
$ fennec
Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.2b5pre and 1.9.2.1.
would you have some advices for me?
Thanks in advance.
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Manuel
It’s getting better, but the page is still completely unusable while it’s loading (which, given loading times on mobile, is not a good thing…) I guess I have to wait for electrolysis before I can start using it.
@Manuel: It sounds like you have a mismatched xulrunner. Make sure you are on the stable channel (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/mozilla-fennec.install), uninstall fennec and xulrunner, and reinstall. Sorry for the trouble!
@voracity: I definitely feel your pain on loading pages, but for me after most of the content has loaded it becomes pretty usable. Is that not your experience? Regardless, I’m super excited about where electrolysis can take us in terms of responsiveness. Thanks for being patient with us :)
Once the page has loaded, it works pretty well. Although, I’ve noticed that I see the checkmarked background during scrolling more than I’d like — certainly more than microb. It seems to only redraw the checkmarked areas _after_ the scrolling stops. Is that right? Another job for electrolysis?
@voracity: Yep, you hit it dead on. Since drawing competes with responsiveness, we try to be careful about when we draw parts of the page that are not on screen, especially if there is a lot of animation on the page.