Firefox Nightly works on ZTE Blade

[Guest vareBlade]

Hey guyz, its been a while.

Im running CM9 on my blade and i just installed the latest ARMv6 firefox nightly and it works!

the build i used - all builds

Edited June 27, 2012 by vareBlade

[Guest Stuart_f]

Also works on CM 7.1.0

Thanks for the heads-up.

[Guest lol looool]

Flash player works?

User agent switching?

Edited June 27, 2012 by lol looool

[Guest Cyclothunder]

Many thanks for the heads up.

trying it now :)

[Guest entz61]

hey,may i ask, what is firefox nightly?

its custom rom?

[Guest targetbsp]

Firefox is a web browser. It's what everyone used to use instead of IE before Chrome came along.

[Guest Mtman1]

hey,may i ask, what is firefox nightly?

its custom rom?

Firefox is a web browser, like the windows browser. They release nightly builds (like cm, but for the app) but it is just an app, not a rom.

[Guest emotty]

thanks ill try it :)

[Guest vNa5h]

great !!1

[Guest targetbsp]

I see lots of people rying it, but no-one coming back with an opinion. Does anyone actually like it?

I found it hopelessly slow compared to Angel. Which is still one of only two browsers out there that auto-formats things well to such a small screen IMO. The other being Xscope but I didn't like its UI - and now v7 seems incompatible with the Blade.

Edited June 29, 2012 by targetbsp

[Guest Sulthekk]

Firefox is a web browser. It's what everyone used to use instead of IE before Chrome came along.

A lot of people still using it, including me too. Chrome has waaay to much cons for a poweruser:

-Stealing data (With the use of auto-update, which is another con as it's silent, what I hate. I must know what is happening behind the scenes.)

-Simple UI, with a lot of options kept hidden.

-The limitations of webkit engine: Okay, it's fast... But only the JS execution is noticably faster, whereas - because of the way it works - you can't just a block an element to load for example, with adblock. It's hidden, but it's still downloaded and uses CPU, takes up memory...

Firefox itself isn't as slow as they say, it only has a slow startup because the whole browser is written in XUL and javascript, and only the 'core' is C++.

I know because I developed a cookie poisoning capable browser as a hobby, and I tried both engines, found Gecko to be the best open choice.

Note: Firefox for android uses 'native' android UI elements instead of XUL... That should make it faster.

Edited June 29, 2012 by Sulthekk

[Guest vareBlade]

Its actually fast enough (the latest version with the native UI).

hey,may i ask, what is firefox nightly?

its custom rom?

If it was a rom dont you think it would be posted in the rom specific sub forum?

Edited June 29, 2012 by vareBlade

[Guest WAWA72]

I use the Angel Browser

Perfect for me