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2008-12-25
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right now, we know little of the physical design of any maemo5 based device...
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2008-12-25
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@ Brooklyn, NY
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I like the jump they made between a1 and a2 but I still think it's too gimmicky, and its best gimmicks -- zooming, swiping, etc -- still have issues. It'll be great to have for those pages that absolutely need it, but it'll be a long while until this replaces MicroB for me.
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2008-12-25
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Originally Posted by luca
Yeah, I missed that in my excitement that it works well for url input; pretty big oversight.
It doesn't seem to work here with fields in a form.
Another big issue is that a double tap zooms-in then immediately zooms out but the viewport cuts the top left part of the page and the only way to restore is to close the browser.
Originally Posted by merito
for the url input and inputs in prefs dialogs, Thumb launch of fs keyboard doesn't work, but if you use the center dpad button you can launch the fullscreen keyboard. Unfortunately, as others have mentioned, this does not work for form inputs, pressing it maps to enter and submits the form. This is a problem in MicroB as well, which I've been looking for a way to fix.
You can use only small keyboard, full screen is unavailable.
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2008-12-25
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Joined on Sep 2005
@ Helsinki
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Originally Posted by namtastic
Yeah, I also tried the latest alpha. It wasn't as slow as I had anticipated, but then again, my expectations weren't that high. Gimmicky is also a word I would use. I don't really buy that method of tabbed browsing to be really quick or handy to use.
I like the jump they made between a1 and a2 but I still think it's too gimmicky, and its best gimmicks -- zooming, swiping, etc -- still have issues. It'll be great to have for those pages that absolutely need it, but it'll be a long while until this replaces MicroB for me.
Dragging the entire page to the side, especially after zooming in, is not really a fun experience. Plus your position gets lost... Suppose you're zoomed in somewhere to the right side of a page, and would want to switch to another tab: goodbye to your page position. Or vice versa to the controls on the right hand side.
Does somebody wildly disagree with me? Am I missing the brilliance of the UI concept?
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2008-12-25
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@ Finland
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i noticed two things: it no more takes ages to start and it eats only a small peace of memory. :P
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2008-12-27
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Even in Fennec Alpha 2 the improved Javascript engine (Tracemonkey...) is not enabled by default. You can enable this by creating a file
with the content
After restarting Fennec you'll see a noticeable speedup of pages with heavy Javascript usage.
After enabling Tracemonkey the sunspider benchmark result did improve from 85183 to 46931 for me (N800, Diablo with latest SSU update).
Code:
/home/user/.mozilla/fennec/<your profile directory>/user.js
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user_pref("javascript.options.jit.content", true);
user_pref("javascript.options.jit.chrome", true);
After enabling Tracemonkey the sunspider benchmark result did improve from 85183 to 46931 for me (N800, Diablo with latest SSU update).
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2008-12-27
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Why is Tracemonkey disabled by default in Fennec?
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