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I keep up with the Fennec beta builds and I noticed that Mozilla stopped making them for Maemo as of a few weeks ago. I could not find a posting about why they were not being built so I shot off an e-mail. The response is disheartening.

Sucks but I can see why. I'm a nightly user and honestly, it is seriously better than the standard one (much faster.) That and it doesn't seem any less stable if you ask me.

So basically "Firefox for mobile" has been reduced to "Firefox for Android" now.

Opera browser is very smooth and nice. Try it love it

And my respect for opera grows even more.

And Firefox for N9 as well, and supposedly for Windows Mango as well, isn´t it?

I love Opera because they still release updates for my N800 after all these years.

firefox.. why u turn into nokia?
no u tell me!!
why?! why why why why why?!
*beats u with a stick like an indian parent*

kinda sad and doesn't care at the same time. fennec has a potential and the browser is a good one. but, a somewhat failed project that didn't met the expectations with it's slow start ups and resource hungry. can't understand why microb still beats firefox when it's the image of the former and the former get updates...

I suspect MicroB beats fennec on start-ups because as I understand it, aspects of the MicroB browser are preloaded into memory when the N900 boots. So microb is always partially open. (Keep in mind Conversations uses modified browser windows to open up each conversation too, so the part of microb that's always open is multi-purpose.)

Honestly though, if only Fennec used the stock status/menu bar instead of their own at the top, I would switch to whatever the latest nightly build is. I would /strongly prefer/ to also have the swirl-to-zoom gesture and the mouse cursor selection, but even with the lack of those I'd be willing to convert.

(Not so much to Opera as my main browser, but that's mainly because I don't like non-desktop pages and at some level I still care about having flash, though the constantly worsenning out-dated-ness of our flash player makes that less and less relevant. But major respect to Opera for continued support. I do use it on my N900 occasionally, even if I'm unwilling to use it as my main browser.)