New Firefox For Android Beta Released 107
Mozilla has announced the availability of a new beta version of Firefox for Android. The release notes list many of the new features and fixes, which include Flash support, improvements to panning and zooming, plugins loading only on touch, and a new "Awesome Screen." They point out that many Android phones are supported, and that a beta version for tablets will be coming soon. Mozilla is asking for help "testing everything from the faster startup and response times to compatibility for specific websites and graphics performance." Here's the download page.
Didn't you get the memo? Maemo is dead. (Score:4, Insightful)
As much as I hate to say it (as a N900 pre-orderer), the N900 is dead. The community is split between fourteen different forks and forks of forks and most of its users seem to have moved on to more popular devices (Android and iOS - I doubt too many bought another Nokia/WP7 after what Nokia did with the N900).
Anyway all these together make for a rather unwelcoming development platform. You can't blame people for dropping it.
What's special about this version? (Score:4, Insightful)
They release new Android betas pretty often - there have been half a dozen last year [mozilla.org], for example. What makes this version so special that it warrants a /. front page story?
STILL no text reflow on zoom? What the heck? (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously, the stock browser has been able to reflow text on zoom practically forever; why doesn't Firefox Mobile?
This is the killer feature for me; with my poor vision I always have to zoom in pretty far to see anything on those tiny screens, and being forced to pan left and right to see every line is a huge pain. I like FF for its bookmark/password sync functionality, but when it comes to actually reading anything it's almost easier to copy the bookmark out of Firefox into the stock browser and go from there.