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Mozilla Firefox codename Fennec is 600% faster than the built in browser on Nokia’s Maemo platform

Categories: Applications, Linux, Nokia
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 at 2:41 PM

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Ars.technia is testing the latest nightly of the new Firefox browser for mobile devices, codename Feenec, and it appears that it is significantly faster than the one in the latest public version of Nokia’s Maemo operating system which runs on the N810 and N800 internet tablets. How much faster? How about a 6x increase in speed! The Mozilla team is saying that optimizations for the ARM architecture are progressing faster than that for x86, which doesn’t surprise me, if you’re going to focus on mobile then you have to focus on ARM!

Looking forward to testing this if it ever gets ported to the S60 platform of course.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Anthony

    600x more reliable would be good too!

  • JonnyBruha

    I’d be happy just to see it released for the N810. The default browser wastes way too much time.

  • Al Pavangkanan

    I tried it out. Not fast. Google reader still slow
    Maybe I installed the wrong thing.