On the blink

A lot of performance improvements from 1.0a1 in this new release.

I have installed it and my first impressions are very positives: more responsive, the zoom is more quick than 1.0a1…

And there are some addons!!

So check it out!

We have Fennec 1.0a1

Nice build, a lot of bugfixes, only works on Nokia N800 and N810, and Windows Mobile builds are on the way, but there are builds of Fennec for Windows, Mac and Linux. Check it out here.

But since M8, we have a very nice feature: Tracemonkey.

Type about:config in the awesome(fennec) bar. Filter by: jit and activate (to true) the two preferences.

Maybe Tracemonkey for Firefox is: “Hey! Gmail looks like it is a little bit more smooth”, but for Fennec (where processors are slow), “Hey, it tooks only one second!! not 5!!”

So, Fennec Team: THANKS!!

If yesterday I wrote a blog post about how to localize Fennec M4, today I read on the Mark Finkle blog that there is a new milestone in the Fennec development, the M6 (0.6). This is a pre pre pre pre alpha release, so use carefully.

I think I will try this myself in less than 2 weeks…