Comments on: Memory Dragon Slain

By: Chicken coops blueprint

Chicken coops blueprint — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:16:31 +0000

Great one folks, artificial limit of 32 is just too little.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:42:47 +0000

@David What page did you load? QA testing has found some crashes related to specific sites that have plugins. I’d like to get as exhaustive a list of those sites as possible so we can fix that bug.

As always, bug reports (bugzilla.mozilla.org) are much appreciated, but leaving another comment here works too.

By: David

David — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:49:47 +0000

Downloaded the latest nightly, managed to get it to load a page, although it then crashed…

It takes forever to load, but loading pages is relatively quick, compared to the Opera on there, but I think Fennec still has a way to go in user friendliness and usability…

Keep up the good work.

By: Christer J

Christer J — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:08:23 +0000

I tried it on my Sony-Ericsson X1 Xperia (unlocked).

It started but got about the same results as David and Bill.
What I did’t get was the touchscreen keypad working. (it doesn’t work on Opera either but it works on Internet Explorer).

So I’m waiting in the que for next try and hope it will be more allround working.

Keep up the good work – it feels better than Opera and IE already.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:07:42 +0000

Same as David. Have tried several nightlys and just tried (01.04.09) with same results. Black screen with checkerboards when you swipe right/left. I can get to a setup screen with Add-ons, Extensions, Themes, etc…

Phone information
Sprint HTC Touch Pro

Manufacture date 15.12.08
Software Ver. 1.03.651.4
Firmware Ver. 1.03.15F
Hardware Ver. 0002

I tried installing to main memory and storage card.

Thanks for all the hard work! I look forward to changing over to Fennec.

By: joone

joone — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:36:03 +0000

http://joone4u.blogspot.com/2009/03/fennec-10-alpha-for-windows-mobile-on.html
It’s awesome, Fennec is working on SAMSUNG i780.
I can see web pages instead of checkerboards
Thanks~

By: David

David — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:26:35 +0000

Just downloaded the nightly (24.03.09) and it still checkerboards on my O2 branded Touch Pro

At least it loads up now, the original Feb release checkerboarded before it got as far as loading the interface.

This version displays a black screen, swiping right displays a tab list on the left and a checkerboard on teh right.

By: tonikitoo

tonikitoo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:39:19 +0000

just amazing !

By: blassey

blassey — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:28:03 +0000

@Fred we are doing paging. We are also working on memory pressure handlers which will help the situation. One thing to note though is that on Windows CE there isn’t much difference between “RAM” and “disk”

@Dawid huh? If Firefox 3 performs poorly, what browser performs well? See http://ejohn.org/blog/firefox-3-memory-use/ and http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/03/firefox-3-goes-on-a-diet-eats-less-memory-than-ie-and-opera.ars

By: Dawid Gatti

Dawid Gatti — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:29:00 +0000

I wonder if this fix will bring the poor memory performance form the big brother – Firefox.