Fennec Leak
Kernman of XDA provided a link to a leaked version of Fennec (Firefox mobile). As we know, a beta version of Fennec is expected next week. So what can I tell you about the leaked version? It is NOT the beta version scheduled for release. How do I know that? It lacks any form of stability. It is a whopping 23megs, requires a soft reset after installation and installs into the Games folder (which is oddly appropriate since navigating a webpage without a crash is a game). As of now, the load times are mediocre and responsiveness is questionable BUT we can still learn a few things about it. It is VGA and as we’ve seen with some other browsers the font is really really tiny. The keyboard does not automatically pop-up (even the keyboard icon does not come up automatically). You need to begin typing with the physical keyboard and then the onscreen keyboard may appear (this may be a problem for Diamond users unless they set a physical key to toggle the onscreen keyboard). And the default is to load the mobile version of the website (not the full version).
Here are a few photos to give you a sense as to what it currently looks like:
Now if you’ll excuse me I have some uninstalling to do.
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Comments
Kevin This is an interesting first look at a new browser, I just hope that readers don’t expect a stable release considering its a beta. Got to give software in development a break, it’s not done yet nor will it be next week when the public beta starts. I’m really looking forward to what mozilla will bring to the table.
riccardo looks promising… in a not-so-near future;)
thanks for having sacrificed your palm to this trap for us!!
if it inherits from mozilla minimo i’m not really surprised of the huge memory and cpu consumption… even firefox on pc sometimes get thirst of ram and you can only close it..
maybe we could hope almost that the released version could be a bit more stable..
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I think i’ll just wait till it’s released next week. Thanks for checking it out though!