I have a feeling that my 915 subscriptions have something to do with the load issues. ;) On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That's weird, > > MicroB opens my Google Reader page with no issue at all, and is actually > quite fast. > > -- > anidel > > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Jonathan Greene <atmasphere@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> I love the Fennec browser though it could clearly use less memory, be >> more stable and launch more quickly. ;) >> >> It can actually render my Google Reader page which MicroB cannot ... I >> find it super responsive and hope we see it packaged in a future >> release. What I understood from the original Ars piece on the topic >> was that they are pretty close relatives, but that Fennec benefits >> from a later code base which seems to really make quite the >> difference. >> >> For every day use though I am running MicroB as it is far more >> reliable at the moment. >> >> JG >> >> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Quim Gil <quim.gil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > ext John Holmblad wrote: >> >> All, >> >> >> >> for those who have not already seen the article whose url is: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080409-first-look-mozilla-fennec-targets-handheld-browser-market.html >> >> >> >> It provides a comparison of the performance of Microb versus Fennec on >> >> the N810. Fennec shows a ~6x speed improvement for javascript. >> > >> > Yes, the numbers of these automated tests are right. However, users >> > having used both browsers will probably agree that in terms of real user >> > experience as for today both are pretty similar, and even the Nokia >> > version is performing better in real use conditions. I'm talking about >> > my own experience and comments I've heard. >> > >> > What is your opinion? I'm sure both Nokia and Mozilla developers are >> > interested to know. >> > >> > Is someone lying? Not at all. It's just a matter of looking at the >> > details. The current MicroB engine was developed one year ago by Nokia >> > starting with a pre-alpha of the latest Gecko engine, the freshest code >> > available by then. The release under development done last Summer put a >> > Mozilla based browser at a level where nobody could before (including >> > the own Mozilla guys, who were happily surprised btw). Now Fennec is >> > shipping a most recent Gecko and of course putting both one by side you >> > get nowadays much better performance at engine level. How much MicroB's >> > open source code helped on that, I don't know but I guess it saved them >> > some work. >> > >> > But users don't deal with engines alone, you have the UI in between and >> > this is where the Mozilla browser in Chinook and Fennec differ most: the >> > first uses an own UI providing -as for today- much better performance >> > that XUL, a component that seems like needing more work before being >> > really fit in mobile devices. Are we going to keep this difference in >> > the future? Time we tell. Both teams have a lot of work to do anyway. >> > >> > But in fact the best part of this Mozilla browsers comparison is not the >> > numbers competition part but the human collaboration part. The Mozilla >> > and Nokia developers are collaborating and both projects are in sync. >> > The current development of the Mozilla browser for Diablo+1 is based >> > directly on the Gecko trunk and we are discussing ways of deepening the >> > collaboration, also at a community level. Imagine the wide community of >> > Firefox add-on developers targeting the maemo platform - that would be >> > fun. >> > >> > We are even having some common exercises of exploration, both sides >> > learning a lot i.e. Qt support - >> > http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/05/06/well-isnt-that-qt/ >> > >> > Conclusion: We are as happy as you seeing the performance progress done >> > by the Fennec project. We feel honored by them targeting our platform in >> > the first place. Nokia is doing the right thing with the Mozilla >> > development. Lots of potential for collaboration and cool stuff. >> > >> > -- >> > Quim Gil >> > marketing manager, open source >> > maemo software @ Nokia >> > _______________________________________________ >> > maemo-users mailing list >> > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx >> > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan Greene >> +1.914.750.8740 >> AIM / iChat - atmasphere >> gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene@xxxxxxxxx >> Skype / Gizmo - JonathanGreene >> blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com >> _______________________________________________ >> maemo-users mailing list >> maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx >> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > > -- > anidel -- Jonathan Greene +1.914.750.8740 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene@xxxxxxxxx Skype / Gizmo - JonathanGreene blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
