Comments on: Firefox for Maemo RC3 is out

By: Benjamin Stover

Benjamin Stover — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:20:07 +0000

@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.

By: voracity

voracity — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:46:44 +0000

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?

By: Benjamin Stover

Benjamin Stover — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:37:18 +0000

@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 :)

By: voracity

voracity — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:24:09 +0000

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.

By: Manuel Serrano

Manuel Serrano — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:42:00 +0000

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.

–
Manuel