Firefox 4 Beta 2 for Android, Maemo Released

[exfileme]

The new Firefox 4 Beta for mobile is better, but still needs work.

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[Guest]

This "may" be an improvement over the last version, but it's still far from ready for prime time. The menu system is not intuitive at all on an HTC EVO 4g. I kept hitting the menu button and the only thing that would happen is a would get a message that the page wan't encrypted. It took me 10 minutes of fiddling to (accidentally) work out that you had to slide the page to the left to access the settings menu. Why reinvent the wheel? The menu button isn't good enough?

The start page was also a pain in the neck to set and I could never get back to it unless I slide the page to the right to show the History (or Bookmark?) bar. Every time I entered the url in the box, I'd be taken to a google search page. No, no no. If I type a url in that box, just take me to the site that I requested. Lame.

Long way to go. This has been deleted from my phone until Mozilla can make a browser that doesn't need a manual to figure out how to use it. Deleted.

 

[afrobacon]

On my phone speed is everything, and if this is slower than the stock browser I think I'll switching back to Dolphin not long after I download it.

Still it is Firefox; so I'm not throwing it to the curb until I thoroughly get to test it out first hand.

 

[jimmysmitty]

So does it support 2.1 or only 2.2 Froyo?

If so it may be a while before I actually get it since the LG Ally is still not given a date for 2.2.

 

[skyline100]

firefox cant even replace the MicroB in maemo..

 

[eddieroolz]

Holy crud, it was 43MB for Beta 1!?

Personally I think Firefox is really starting to lose momentum. If it weren't for the addons in the desktop client, it would not be relevant these days.

For mobile, Mozilla had to start from scratch, and there wasn't any addons to save it. Hence the lucklustre acceptance rate.