Android Fennec Progress
This may not look like the Fennec you were expecting, in fact it looks more like the Firefox you already know, but rest assured something’s on the way. Vladimir Vukićević, currently working on the project, had this to say regarding the screen shot:
“Mouse events sort of work, toplevel windows sort of work, keyboard doesn’t work yet but shouldn’t be hard to hook up. This is running in an emulator at the moment for ease of debugging, but it’s working just fine on physical hardware as well.
You’ll note that this is the full Firefox interface, and not the Fennec/Firefox Mobile UI; we’re testing with the full interface because it’s significantly more complex than the mobile UI and stresses Gecko much more. So, if the full UI works, then Fennec should work fine as well. Given the interest in Android on netbook and tablet devices, an updated version of the full Firefox UI might find a home on some of these. Android has been pretty great to work with so far; it’s a bit unusual platform for us due to its Java core, but with the NDK we’re able to bridge things together without many problems.”
Obviously this isn’t something that will be available on the Android market next week (be it more like Fennec or Firefox), but this means that there is serious progress being made. If you pay close attention, Vlad also mentioned that there could be a full version of Firefox designed for netbooks and tablets running Android. I don’t know if that’s enough to get you excited, but I’m practically on the edge of my seat. Out of all the current browsers, I’m sticking with what comes stock on the 1.8 version of the SuperD rom. If something were to pull me away, it would be Fennec. What are you currently using? If Fennec was nice enough would it change that? Let us know in the comments or on my Twitter.
Via Gizmodo
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I'm using super d 1.8 but using Dolphin Browser. I just like the UI better, but it isn't necessarily faster. I've never tried Super D's default browser. Perhaps it is the Loccy browser, not sure. Definitely keeping an eye out for this though, even though the wait time seems longer than normal for a developer that has the same gung ho attitude as android.
I'm using super d 1.8 but using Dolphin Browser. I just like the UI better, but it isn't necessarily faster. I've never tried Super D's default browser. Perhaps it is the Loccy browser, not sure. Definitely keeping an eye out for this though, even though the wait time seems longer than normal for a developer that has the same gung ho attitude as android.
I'm using super d 1.8 but using Dolphin Browser. I just like the UI better, but it isn't necessarily faster. I've never tried Super D's default browser. Perhaps it is the Loccy browser, not sure. Definitely keeping an eye out for this though, even though the wait time seems longer than normal for a developer that has the same gung ho attitude as android.