What happened to Mobile Firefox (Fennec?

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Last week, Mozilla proudly announced the release of a milestone version of Firefox-Fennec for the mobile version. this highly anticipated tool can be in the form of pre-alpha, for Windows Mobile HTC Touch Pro. Mobile web enthusiasts around the world are beginning to test the new browser. However, this is a strange thing. The screen does not show the web pages to be browsed, but a pile of chess blocks.

Startup failed

In the PCMag test, Fennec was installed on two mobile devices. on any device, Fennec started twice before it started. However, the screen displays only a bunch of chess blocks instead of Fennec's welcome images. Scroll to the upper-left corner to view the address bar. However, an error is returned after the URL is entered. after the Modem is started through Opera, the title bar of different web pages is displayed, but the page is still not displayed. Other Fennec testers experienced the same problem.

Sascha Segan, the columnist for PCMag.com, was reached. Is this a milestone? Good luck to Mozilla people next time.

What's wrong?

Mark Finkle, a member of the Mobile team, said the problem seems to be related to memory. He said that Windows Mobile devices have restrictions on memory usage, which is a problem they are currently solving. However, they do not seem to find the real problem that caused the BUG. He wrote in his blog that once we find the problem, we will immediately tell you the details in the blog.

In the Fennece BUG status, the BUG still says it has not been assigned to a specific solution. Hopefully this means that the entire Fennec team is addressing this BUG.

A reviewer of Bugzilla said the error followed by a gfxImageSurface error, but was not confirmed by others.

Mobile Web is the battlefield for the next round of browser competition

Interestingly, in the face of a setback, another Mobile browser, Skyfire, is releasing an important version. it has launched a new social version for Windows Mobile and Symbian Skyfire 0.9, this browser currently supports Flash 10, Silverlight, and Ajax (Skyfire is a server-based transit mobile browser, similar to Opera Mini. Theoretically, this browser should support any desktop browser function, currently, browsers that support Flash locally do not exist ).

In the latest upgrade, Skyfire provides an entry similar to Friendfeed to get the latest news through RSS, Facebook, and Twitter. Its default Feeds sources include Digg, ESPN, Google News, Hulu, YouTube and Yahoo! News, which can also be customized by yourself.

In addition to the newer Skyfire, there is also a popular heavyweight player in the Mobile Web field, Opera Mobile, which has been installed on millions of Mobile devices around the world.

Although Skyfire and Opera have not received any attention from Mozilla, innovation in the mobile Web field may come from any company, and the dominant position on the desktop does not mean everything, this is a good thing for mobile Web users. (