Guest Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 (edited) Hi guys, if you go to play store you can now download firefox 19 beta which works on our zte blade phones :) Previously, the browser required an 800MHz ARMv6 processor or faster, but Mozilla lowered the requirement to 600MHz, along with 512MB of memory, and HVGA (480x320 pixels) screen resolution. The browser is 21.37mb btw. more info: http://news.cnet.com...-android-reach/ Firefox 20 will have a memory requirement of just 384MB, a customizable homepage, HTML5 context menus support and private browsing. Edited January 11, 2013 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roeloff Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Great news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shezar Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Wow, the initial armv6 nightlies were "a bit" faster... Anyways, nice to see firefox finally on my phone, I'll try using it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest emotty Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Thanks ill be trying this later :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vNa5h Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Whats the big deal man.. imo the stock jb browser is better than firefox... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peetu20 Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Great, no need to use unofficial ports! Big thanks to the new! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peetu20 Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Oops. I meant news :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shezar Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Oops. I meant news :) You can edit your post... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Whats the big deal man.. imo the stock jb browser is better than firefox... Stock browser on android 2.3.7 cynogenmod gets 200 on html5test.com, firefox 19 beta scores 392. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sulthekk Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Whoah when did this thing became so much slower? I'm wondering how do they intend to put firefox os on low-end phones if it stays that way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dhavaljp.95 Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Stock jb browser on 4.2.1 gets 298+3 bonus points on html5test com.. Will surely try this new beta ! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Whoah when did this thing became so much slower? I'm wondering how do they intend to put firefox os on low-end phones if it stays that way... I think the requirements of firefox os is an 800mhz cpu as the minimum allowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ty3uK Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Please, upload Firefox. My Blade not supported. Sorry for my eng. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest targetbsp Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Last time I tried firefox it was horrifically sluggish and worked fine. Has this changed? A spec change is meaningless if its still slow. And I'm not talking about benchmarks but how it actually is to use. Frankly the last time I used the desktop version it had pretty much the same problems. It could ace a webpage 0.01 seconds faster than its competitors but spent several seconds longer loading itself up which kinda defeated the point. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Please, upload Firefox. My Blade not supported. Sorry for my eng. https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/19.0b1/android-armv6/en-US/fennec-19.0b1.en-US.android-arm-armv6.apk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Last time I tried firefox it was horrifically sluggish and worked fine. Has this changed? A spec change is meaningless if its still slow. And I'm not talking about benchmarks but how it actually is to use. Frankly the last time I used the desktop version it had pretty much the same problems. It could ace a webpage 0.01 seconds faster than its competitors but spent several seconds longer loading itself up which kinda defeated the point. :D The desktop version is actually pretty quick now in v18 as it has a new javascript engine. The phone version is fairly slow, but so is android's and opera's. I'd rather have a slower browser that could render modern html5 webpages properly than a faster old browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ty3uK Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 https://ftp.mozilla....d-arm-armv6.apk Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mobile579 Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Does anyone know if FF can auto flow text to width of screen? If FF can't any alternatives? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest targetbsp Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Does anyone know if FF can auto flow text to width of screen? If FF can't any alternatives? Thanks Angel browser is the best I've found at that. Which is why I use it. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sulthekk Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Does anyone know if FF can auto flow text to width of screen? If FF can't any alternatives? Thanks It can't by default, but there is an addon for it. FF has a nice plugin architecture... Even though I'm not sure it's good for phones as it is. I mean, I installed an addon and there were no permissions shown to be accepted, which I guess means that every addon can use the rights of the browser, so a malicious addon, once installed can easily do anything with ff's current permissions! :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hack3rr Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 The browser is the slowest and the most sluggish one ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mitchde Posted January 13, 2013 Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 (edited) I think the new FF beta can run faster (as standard browser) if the hw environment is much better, like RAM = 1 GB. Running on low end smartfones with less RAM ONLY some js benches are better but in real life (browsing real sites) needs to much ressorces (RAM) for our blade. benefit of fast (but RAm eating) FF goes into other site = slower or has some short hangings. Edited January 13, 2013 by mitchde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest emotty Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 lol just read permissions on this thing its much to cheeky for me .. went in dustbin :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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