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Mozilla mobile browser effort broken
THE MOZZERELLA FOUNDATION is a bit cheesed off after early adopters of its pre-alpha Fennec browser for Windows Mobile found it didn't work.
"The bad news is the browser is basically useless for many people," Mark Finkle, a Fennec developer, confessed on his bog.
When Fennec loads, many people are left looking at the background checkerboard pattern, wrote Finkle. "This appears to be memory related. Windows Mobile has some exciting restrictions around memory use. There are ways to get around the restrictions and that's what we are working on. When we figure out the true cause and get a solution in place, we'll be sure to blog the details."
You can follow the progress here. µ
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Since when does "pre-alpha software doesn't work" merit a front page story? This article should be tagged with slownewsday!
"This appears to be memory related. Windows Mobile has some exciting restrictions around memory use".
I don't quite get it. Why people in the computer industy get excited all the time around kernel features and cores and stream processors? This guys isn't even a vole employee. In fact, I read this phrase like:
"This appears to be memory related. Windows Mobile has some overly complex restrictions that some hackers will inevitably circumvent but that right now bloats and clogs my code, and I fear thar some MIBs will show up if I post this".
The first thing I thought when I read the title: Firefox is consuming too much RAM and WinMo forced it to quit.
Funny, my Opera 9.5 works fine, as does IE....and skyfire, but hay, must be Windows Mobile, it is Microsoft after all.