500MB?
That seems... a lot.
The latest beta release of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox for Android browser has lower hardware requirements than earlier versions, adding millions of potential users. In a blog post announcing the new release on Friday, Mozilla said the mobile browser is now supported on devices with ARMv6 CPUs clocked as low as 600MHz, …
500MB RAM minimum for GB? You're kidding right? You must be running some massively bloated vendor-fiddled-with or extremely badly cooked ROM because my ageing HTC HD2 (which came with Windows Mobile 6) runs CyanogenMod 7 (GB) and every app I've thrown at it as smooth as silk... with only 400MB'ish of RAM to play with.
Yep you're right that came out completely wrong, I blame lack of coffee. What I should have said is that less than 512, which in most cases means 256 as far as I'm aware, will lead to a not great Gingerbread experience and a bloody awful ICS one. Specifically Cyanogenmod on the Moto Milestone. Having said that, even my Galaxy note unloads pages from the stock browser when I task switch on JB quite often and that's with a Gig of RAM.
Spoon.
I thought having FF on my Android would give me the same good experience as it does on the desktop. WRONG!
Bad enough not being able to have it open up on the page of my choice. But the fact that it won't even let me choose what page thumbnails are displayed on its opening page but insists on choosing them itself. Apart from the fact that I reckon I know better than FF which pages I most want to go to, there are (ahem!) certain pages I don't particularly want prominently displayed on my 'phone when I use it in public...
Android firefox is a lot better than it was a few months ago, I actually quite like the ui. Its still a bit of a memory hog though and it does like crashing on certain webpages.
Best Android browser for me is Naked Browser, its really fast n lightweight with a minamalist ui.
Dolphin,Boat and most of the other browsers on the play store seem to snoop on your browsing habits and god knows what else (Dolphin keep getting caught snooping, issue an apology and promise not to do it again, then promptly do it again anyway) . A lot of those browsers are sending snooped data back to servers in China so i wouldnt trust them an inch.
Interesting.... The specs on the Raspberry Pi exceed the minimum requirements (Model B has 512MB now, and default clock is 800MHz. Most people use at least a 4GB SD card for mass storage).
They don't usually run Android, though.
And there are about 1 million of them out there...
You may have read that Farnell has sold 500k. RS and the other smaller distis must have sold about a similar amount
I might give FF another go. It was the first thing I installed when I got my HTC desire, which was at the time the state of the art Android phone..and the first thing deleted after shuddering along trying to load pages. I use Opera at themoment on my Razr, but that's no great shakes either. I may try naked browser mentioned above