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!