Comments on: Firefox For Android Coming In February! (UPDATE)

By: Kojeje

Kojeje — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:33:21 +0000

Woww.. Great idea…!
Hope it is a good one :)

By: ilham

ilham — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:47:54 +0000

is firefox rilis??

By: jerry

jerry — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:59:15 +0000

Firefox will begin showing up on mobile devices at the end of this year. I got the chance to test a beta version of Firefox on a pre-release mobile device. The browser, code-named Fennec, is the closest thing yet to a real, desktop-class browser for mobiles.

Wow, its about time that Firefox shows up on our mobile-phones! More details: http://bit.ly/android-firefox-details

By: virtualizer

virtualizer — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:10:01 +0000

Hope it definitely comes with any one-handed zoom mechanism. I use Dolphin and find myself using the “touch-and-hold and choose zoom from the pop-up semi-circular menu” almost exclusively. Don’t want to use two hands for pinch-and-zoom in situations like standing in a crowded train with phone in one hand and …

By: Yva

Yva — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:57:45 +0000

Looking forward to it! (with prism and weave)

By: lassegs

lassegs — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:15:13 +0000

Google has previously said that the Chrome browser team and the Android browser team are two seperate teams with seperate projects. Obviously they both use webkit, but AFAIK thats where the similarities end.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:35:36 +0000

Too bad, I was really looking forward to this. Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve about had it with both the stock browser and the Dolphin browser on my Droid Eris. When it comes to a mobile phone browser, quite frankly, less is more. I don’t have a problem with the stock browser for the most part, partly because HTC customized it to enable multi-touch, but it has absolutely terrible tab management. Dolphin renders a bit better, I think, and has good tab management, but the whole thing feels too bulky and crowded with features I will never use. Some people may love gestures, but they drive me nuts because I don’t use them and they get in my way. I don’t honestly know why it’s so hard to write a web browser for Android. I thought there would be lots of them by now, but the few I can find besides Dolphin all have horrible reviews. Give me a clean, lightweight web browser that has decent tab management and multi-touch, and pinch/tab zooming (i.e. make it “just work” like Safari does on the iPhone), and I will love you forever. There are a lot of things I like about Android, but after using it a while, there’s simply no denying the fact that it’s missing a lot of the “it just works” polish that I had on my iPod Touch.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:54:48 +0000

@swehes You’re right, the Android browser isn’t Chrome, just like this ISN’T Firefox. This is Fennec.

By: ArcticFox

ArcticFox — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:15:49 +0000

Will it slow down , devour threads and gobble up ridiculous amounts of memory just like Firefox does?

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:06:04 +0000

This is definitely incorrect. http://androidandme.com/2010/01/news/alpha-version-of-firefox-for-android-still-many-months-away/ How long is Phandroid going to leave an incorrect article up…?

By: twrock

twrock — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:37:41 +0000

I’m holding out for an Internet Explorer port. ;-)

By: Gunner

Gunner — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:34:21 +0000

According to this……

http://www.camp-firefox.de/node/215#comment-356

“Sorry for responding in English, I’ll include a Google Translation below. I am one of the engineers at Mozilla working on the Android port, and we are many months away from having an alpha version of Firefox for Android. We’re still working on low-level software porting like getting the Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) layer working correctly on the platform, and there are many issues to be solved. We don’t yet have a feeling for when the work will be done, but if you want to follow our progress, you can look on our Mozilla wiki at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Android .”

…there is no Fennec in February. Just rumors running wild.

By: CC

CC — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:33:08 +0000

I’ve been using the Dolphin browser…it works amazingly well on my Hero. I don’t have any of the skins applied…not even sure if they are available for the latest update, but I really like it. Fast, reliable…never had a FC. I’ll take a look at Fennec when it’s released…but it’ll have to be awful good to take me away from Dolphin

By: Lamarr Wilson

Lamarr Wilson — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:00:02 +0000

I’ll pass. lol

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:52:08 +0000

xScope > dolphin > stock browser