News - Android gets Fennec Alpha

[HEXUS]

Firefox for mobile comes to Android handsets.

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[Mblaster]

"This alpha release includes electrolysis multi-threading, which allows the browser interface to run in a separate process from the one rendering Web content. By doing this, Fennec is able to react much faster to user input while pages are loading or CPU intensive JavaScript is running."

Fixed that for you Mozilla...

[crossy]

While Mozilla said Fennec is available for Android 2.0 phones and above, it has been designed to work particularly well on the Nexus One.

Ooh great - two fails in one sentence!

Fail 1 - Android 2.0+ only - oh wonderful, so those of us who's phone is made by folks who haven't got on the Eclair+ train (yes I am looking at you SonyEricsson!) are cut out.

Fail 2 - optimised for the Nexus One - a phone that's on limited availability. Anyone else see the obvious problem with this? Why on earth not "optimise" for something still being actively sold - HTC Hero, Desire, etc. Heck, approach Samsung and see if they can get a few hundred won to optimise it for the Galaxy S.

At least Opera Mobile works well on my SE X10.