FYI - Fennec on Maemo no longer supported - maemo.org

mooninite | # 1 | 2011-10-15, 03:19 | Report

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.

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That is correct, Firefox 7 on Maemo is the last officially supported release by Mozilla. although you may still be able to find nightly builds spun out at: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...al-maemo5-gtk/.

Although I'm not certain how much longer those will be generated, if support ends with Firefox 7.

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cincibluer6 | # 2 | 2011-10-15, 03:27 | Report

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.

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lma | # 3 | 2011-10-15, 03:53 | Report

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

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Makeclick | # 4 | 2011-10-15, 04:05 | Report

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

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niloy | # 5 | 2011-10-15, 06:23 | Report

And my respect for opera grows even more.

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petrelli | # 6 | 2011-10-15, 08:38 | Report

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

maluka | # 7 | 2011-10-15, 09:18 | Report

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

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fahadj2003 | # 8 | 2011-10-15, 13:00 | Report

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*

cloudstrife1ph | # 9 | 2011-10-15, 13:40 | Report

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...

Mentalist Traceur | # 10 | 2011-10-15, 14:45 | Report

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.)