I just read something about Mozilla's Fennec Browser?
Is it any good?

On the N9 it is reasonably fast and usable, even supports some semblance of copy/paste, which the normal browser does not.

On the N900, it's kind of slow, and to me seems to take a rather long time to load, though is usable when it's finally loaded.

slaapliedje

So, I should install it?

i found Opera more stable to be honest...

But you can't install Opera on N9...AFAIK.

you can
http://everythingn9.com/opera-nokia-n9/

Yes, it is quite good.

Fennec supports the following plugins:

Adblock

NoScript (noscript mobile Alpha edition is called NSA no script anywhere, you need to download it from the noscript forum)

I can't see how anyone would want to surf the web without those tools.

Also Fennec allows saving web pages directly to PDF format by clicking a single icon next to the address bar.
Major feature as what you read on the web may not be there tomorrow and PDF is a clean way to archive it.

It allows easy text selection on the capacitive screen of the N9, as said above, at least a step ahead of the standard N9 browser.

Has more options like bookmarks, save password (master password option included - but does not seem to work yet (?) )

It can sync your bookmarks etc.. with the desktop version if you like


My biggest complaint on N9 is that Fennec seems to be some port.

It does not support opening windows separately to show in task manager but uses tabs within its single program window instead. In other word, tries to reinvent desktop concepts on mobile for no good reason at first sight.

The Harmattan task manager does not show the life window content of Fennec, you get a blank icon instead.

A while back I used to wonder why Fennec failed to adapt to the N900 interface rules and wanting to imply it's own proprietary interface with desktop like tabs and the swipe left and right to access tabs / options. (this never goes fluent enough on the N900 but performance has largely improved on the N9)

Some idealistic sounding dev replied that this was for reason of not showing preference for one or the other platform. Open source blah blah.
Guess what - they stopped development for Fennec Maemo 5 soon after and started to show preference for the Android interface.
Announced in October: Fennec on Android will get a native Android interface. Better memory management, touch response, startup time.
Maemo users have been let down again but even so the Fennec program knows no counterpart in some features.

I used the 6 version on my N900 the most as I mostly surf on the N900 due to better readability.

Somehow the availability of Fennec is one major reason to prefer Harmattan above Symbian for example if you are into a phone that does surfing right.

I would be so bold to say that I think Fennec is a bit better than the browser on the N9, but not microb on the N900. The N9 browser just felt like it wasn't feature complete. It's fast though! I do miss my N9 (had to send it back due to it locking without the ability to unlock it.) I do believe I will be ordering another one when PR1.2 comes out.

slaapliedje

Posted from my N900.

Remember also that Fennec can save deb-binaries, default browser on N9 can't.

Read this page & most of this thread (particularly the latter half) if you can
http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=3647&page=14

There is an official version of Opera coming too (not the hack linked to).
Haven't heard much about it lately, but it was def. confirmed.
There's also plans for an official Fennec for the Nokia Store.