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Get your Nokia N900s ready, because Firefox for Maemo RC3 is out now
The folks at Mozilla are on a roll this month: first, they got Firefox 3.6 out the door and onto the desktops of millions of users, and now they're delivering Firefox to the palm of your hand. That is, if you own a Maemo phone, like the Nokia N900. Firefox for Maemo just got its third release candidate, which indicates it's quite close to a final release. RC3 cleans up a few bugs and addresses an issue with plug-ins, especially Flash.Although it may disappoint some users, Mozilla has pulled plug-in support -- not add-on support, mind you -- from this latest release, because Flash apparently performed horribly in the browser. Some sites, like YouTube, worked well, but Mozilla decided to take the Apple route and leave Flash alone altogether. Firefox isn't as closed as MobileSafari, though: you can manually enable plugins again via about:config if you really want Flash. Apart from the Flash situation, RC3 has managed to speed up page load times significantly and introduce more responsive panning and zooming.
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Subscribe to commentsNickJan 28th 2010 11:13AM
They'll probably add Flash once it gets mature enough for smartphones. Or vice versa.
I wonder if Elektrolysis will make it to Mobile Firefox...
TaomynJan 29th 2010 5:42AM
On the N900, don't bother - FF is slow especially to start up and crashes an awful lot. IMHO it's not an RC.
Sticking to MicroB myself which runs Flash with no problems and is much faster and more stable - don't recall it ever crashing out on me.