N9Apps: FireFox demoed on Nokia N9 (available at Nokia Store, flash for next week?)
I saw John tweet that FireFox is available on the N9 (with flash coming soon). Fired up N9 and gave it a quick demo. Apologies for the low resolution, it’s YouTube’s quick upload (still currently processing- man direct upload sucks so bad).
It’s quite good, a little hiccups in places but could possibly be rather awesome should flash appear next week.
Drag left to see tabs and drag right to see navigation and settings. The main page (when opening new tab) shows up your bookmarks. All pages are loaded up as the desktop version, so fonts are small (to an extend readable). You’ve got some neat options for plugins to make the text larger (as well as other FF plugins like adblock that should help load times).
I will need to test this out more, perhaps the random lags might be something else (bad internet connection perhaps? Mine does tend to die around midnight).
You can download this for free at Nokia Store.
FireFox:
Price: Free
Developer Blurb:
The Mozilla Firefox Web browser brings the best of desktop browsing experience. It’s fast, easy to use and customizable, with the latest security and privacy features to help you stay safe online
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Sad they didnt give it more juice, would have been ok considering the fact that they released it in select markets and was dead before it even started shipping, the least they could do is let it go out with a bang
[Comment removed. stop spamming the same comment freaking everywhere. What's wrong with you?]
Comment removed. Stop spamming the same comment over and over again. We do not censor comments/opinions etc but we do dislike spam and spam gets removed.
Write something if you have something to add to the conversation. Spamming with your little catch phrase is not on.
You constantly remove comments you disagree without any arguments – always “stop spammng” or so. This is just not fair, and rather I’d say shameless….
I’d like to add something thsis is rather censorship then moderation. And another thing: Yesterady I’ve taken part in Nokia’s event promoting Lumia 800 and I could play a longer time with it. So we could compare personally WP with my boyfriend MeeGo experiences. And winner definitely is N9. However Microsoft browser was better then the one built in N9. I think with FireFox even this smal point for Lumia is defeted by MeeGo. My boss decided to buy for employees N9s and had plan to make it formal company phone. He resigned when has realised Nokia is Micosoft in fact. Nokia is loosing customers playing Lumia voodoo. Think it over. Nokia don’t kill your reputation and consumers trust in brand. IMHO.
Comments are only removed if they are SPAM.
What is SPAM? Comments that are copied and pasted again and again across the thread or several posts.
e.g. some guy promoting the 808 facebook page on a post about the Nokia 610.
I obviously don’t censor comments where in the content is of an opinion I don’t agree with. There may be times when the spam filter automatically removes comments by accident (overzealous) but this is not to do with us. I have on occasion checked the spam filter to approve comments I disagree with (though there is too much there to do regularly).
I am not silently removing comments (which I could). I have edited these specifically to let people know that I don’t want spam. I hope you can understand this.
Developers leave the symbian, every quality apps. are only available in android,windows phone or ios (some on meego too) but for symbian its nothing for us.
They’ve been ignoring Symbian pretty much since ‘forever’.
One such reason? I still remember reading articles in the early days of apps becoming accepted in culture where they compared the ease of development in iOS vs Nokia’s Symbian. It was saddening to hear devs disliking the platform so much (Qt was not an option back then) as there was so much opportunity to be had.
Any other reasons? During the early days – possible hardware limitations? (compare apps available on iPhone vs S605th or even N900). Lots of fragmentation between devices (easier to just support that one device vs various which can’t all even run the same app).
Even Nokia can’t seem to develop on Symbian. I mean look at Nokia Social vs Gravity.
Exactly! I agree on all points.
The lack of a standardization of a GPU requirement is what killed Symbian’s App compatibility. Nokia had GPUs first and chose to not use them and then stopped including them altogether after the N82/95 era. The original iPhone standardized and utilized it’s GPU (oddly enough, a WEAKER GPU than the one in the N82/95) and developers flocked to this new found freedom of GPU accelerated apps and games.
Nokia on the otherhand took out the GPU and by the time that they realized that the market was shaping around GPU driven hardware and apps, it was too late. Nokia tried to correct it by inluding a GPU in every S^3(-1) device but by that time iOS and Android had such a foothold in developer’s and consumers minds that there wasn’t any hope.
Just imagine if Nokia would NOT have cheaped out and missed the trend but continued using TI OMAP GPUs in there Symbian 5th devices! The apps would have come, afterall, there was developer support, plenty of 2D gameloft, ea, and everybody else games.
When a consumer saw Sims for iPhone and Sims for the N97, the clear winner and purchase was the GPU accelerated gaming device.
Me, well, I kept playing Quake III Arena matches on my N82….and I actually bought the N900 JUST FOR the upgraded GPU and….Quake III Arena…(not knowing the power of Maemo) That Bounce demo was a sign of things (not) to come.
Anyway, the single killer of Nokia/Symbian’s App defeat is Nokia’s ill decision to stop using GPUs in there phones at the critical turning point when GPUs were becoming the driving force for UIs, Games and App development.
Partly it’s CPU and hardware but programming in Symbian C++ and avkon wasn’t as easy as using XCode. They’ve fixed that with Qt but somewhat late.
Nokia Social – well i think they will bring it big in sometime by integrating it in the device itself .. thats a thought
Off-topic…
In order to make the page less heavy, you should do something about the JavaScript stuff on it.
In IE9 there is no problem, but in Firefox it loads quite slowly and makes the whole browser slow for few seconds.
Thanks to adblock plus, I disabled all the flash but only after I looked for the JavaScript elements and disabled them, everything started to work normally.
So, if somebody else is experiencing slowdowns in FIrefox, it’s not the flash it’s mainly the JavaScript. =]
Good tip. Really does help. Silly question, what benefit is there to leaving it on? Should have known to do this as it’s also kinda mandatory to reduce lagging in Symbian browser.
Well, I’m not really a developers, so please someone correct me if wrong.
If you disable Javascript elements that get parsed when the browser is loading the content, the built-in javascript engine of Firefox works less. Rendering the pages should be smoother and quicker.
There will content missing in the page, and you would not be able to use any parts of a website that relies on JavaScript.
I think that’s what happens, but probably someone can explain better. Cheers Jay !
Have you changed something in the past week or so on the MNB? I can also experience a notable slowdown even on my desktop in FF, and last night I tried browsing through MNB on my N900 and had to forcefully close the MicroB a couple of times just to unstuck it. I didn’t have those problems a while back – I used to open 10s of MNB pages in new browser windows with no trouble at all…
If I have the time, I’ll run MNB through Firebug later to see what might be a culprit for quite taxing MNB as of lately…
Noticed it too, thought it was my wifi connection. Guess not!
Just to be clear, I was talking about the desktop versions of Firefox and IE9 in my post. ;]
If you’re using AdblockPlus, here is screenshot with the items I have blocked to have the most clear view of everything and the fastest loading speed for the page.
Try it, the difference is huge! ;]
- http://oi42.tinypic.com/3517tyt.jpg
SendingThis Through Firefox on n9, experiencing a lot of keyboard lag, the n9 keyboard, stock and swype are integrated whereas in opera it isn’t. over all it is nice and very usable.
Well if it has flash, then will just make iPlayer the home page and use it for that alone.
Hopefully it will work
I remember with N900, bbc iPlayer kept updating so that work arounds to play flash kept on breaking.
now iI can watch embedded videos here on your blog.
, oPera and the stock browser won’t allow me that
Not sure flash is needed to watch embed. Anyone know how to get N9 to load up HTML video? (Like it does on my Lumia)
youtube videos play fine on the n9 i usualy just click on them
Sorry yes, my bad, I meant for FF. How to get it to load HTML5 vid (I think we already showed demo of HTML5 youtube for N9 a while ago :S heh it’s late)
when iI click on an embedded vidEo, it doesn’t play, when iI click on a link, it plays on a different browser tab or sometimes iI only plays the sound with a static note icon on the screen.somehow Firefox made it possible to watch videoo on mnb.
Yup you’re right. HTML5 youtube site is fine but embed videos with main browser opens up a new tab and just plays audio :S
I think the bug is in YouTube’s browser sniffing code. Firefox is presumably sending a user agent YouTube recognise whereas the stock N9 browser isn’t.
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Just as slow as it was on N900.. Shame on Mozilla.
sorry if I’m a noob, but how do i disable Java on ff as one poster above seem tobe saying? I’m really clueless
swipe within the app to the left to reveal the sidebar which appears on the right. On the very bottom beneath the back and forward keys is a gear like symbol for settings. That takes you to preferences then scroll down to disable javascript. Hope that helps.
I would say that firefox on the n9 is a nice start but has a lot of work ahead of it. Here’s hoping they get it optimized and get rid of a lot of lag.
oohhh great help thanks a lot!uu
it does load mnb and other sites a lot faster after disabling the java, but there is still this stuttering(many little stutter) of the screen when scrolling, anybody experiencing this? generally better thn opera i guess?
Is it a worthy successor to MicroB?
The one in Nokia store I believe is the same version as the desktop Firefox. Newer versions seem a bit faster – I’m running 12.0~a2.
whats MNB? Is it a browser? A better browser? I dont get it.. Sorry being such a noob… Im getting what it takes from your posts jay for my n9… Thanks
MNB = My Nokia Blog
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why they did not support the original browser? It’s faster
Firefox is dying so fast.. It reminds me of Netscape, had it’s couple of years and then sank like a brick. It just tries to do too much and fails at the basics, I want a fast browser that gets out of the way.
its already got flash but its a bit lagging … u can test it by ur self
But I cannot watch tv. For example If I want to go to fomny website, I can’t watch any channel because it said no flash
okay, so after having tested, opera and firefox, the stock browsee is still the smoothesy when it cpnes to scrolling up and down a website, noy only tgat opera becomes unusable reprcially when im not on 3g and wifi, but the stock btowser loads up sites even during gsm connection only.
Perhaps, I just have seen some comments before, read amd then they were removed. Perhaps that one really was a spam.
My reply to you about ‘censorship’ is here
http://mynokiablog.com/2012/02/25/n9apps-firefox-demoed-on-nokia-n9-available-at-nokia-store-flash-for-next-week/comment-page-1/#comment-523257
Just to repeat. There is none. I don’t remove comments I disagree with. If a comment is copied and pasted again and again, it is spam and it is removed. This has nothing to do with whether I agree with the content.
Also…
If folks want to post something – promote their facebook page, at least comment in a thread that talks about that topic. Otherwise, it’s just more offtopic spam. I hope you can understand this. This post talks about firefox on N9. Anything else is off topic.
I actually like the Firefox browser. I am experiencing quite a bit of lag, but it seems that it should be a relatively easy fix. I am enjoying the swiping feature to get to bookmarks and recently viewed pages.
I actually like the new Firefox browser. There seems to be quite a bit of lag, but it looks like a relatively easy fix. Overall I am impressed with the swiping to get to the bookmarks and the overall look of the browser.
Can’t remind the source, but Flash support is going to be on Feb/March days. So it is comning pretty soon a couple days after N9′s FireFox. It was question of bussines deals with Adobe, but not any technical problem – don’t know any details.
How do you think: is this N9 enthusiast communicating something? He/she seems speak/write Hindu or language with similar letters. How taugh he/she was to obtain it there despite trade restrictions against N9 in certain markets? It was beacuse N9 and MeeGo is demanded or any other reasons? What can be the answer in infinte wisdom of Microsoft evangelists All-We-Know-Who?