[maemo-users] Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

That's weird,

MicroB opens my Google Reader page with no issue at all, and is actually
quite fast.

--
anidel

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Jonathan Greene <atmasphere at atmasphere.net>
wrote:

> I love the Fennec browser though it could clearly use less memory, be
> more stable and launch more quickly.  ;)
>
> It can actually render my Google Reader page which MicroB cannot ... I
> find it super responsive and hope we see it packaged in a future
> release.  What I understood from the original Ars piece on the topic
> was that they are pretty close relatives, but that Fennec benefits
> from a later code base which seems to really make quite the
> difference.
>
> For every day use though I am running MicroB as it is far more
> reliable at the moment.
>
> JG
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > ext John Holmblad wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >> for those who have not already seen the article whose url is:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080409-first-look-mozilla-fennec-targets-handheld-browser-market.html
> >>
> >> It provides a comparison of the performance of Microb versus Fennec on
> >> the N810. Fennec shows a ~6x speed improvement for javascript.
> >
> > Yes, the numbers of these automated tests are right. However, users
> > having used both browsers will probably agree that in terms of real user
> > experience as for today both are pretty similar, and even the Nokia
> > version is performing better in real use conditions. I'm talking about
> > my own experience and comments I've heard.
> >
> > What is your opinion? I'm sure both Nokia and Mozilla developers are
> > interested to know.
> >
> > Is someone lying? Not at all. It's just a matter of looking at the
> > details. The current MicroB engine was developed one year ago by Nokia
> > starting with a pre-alpha of the latest Gecko engine, the freshest code
> > available by then. The release under development done last Summer put a
> > Mozilla based browser at a level where nobody could before (including
> > the own Mozilla guys, who were happily surprised btw). Now Fennec is
> > shipping a most recent Gecko and of course putting both one by side you
> > get nowadays much better performance at engine level. How much MicroB's
> > open source code helped on that, I don't know but I guess it saved them
> > some work.
> >
> > But users don't deal with engines alone, you have the UI in between and
> > this is where the Mozilla browser in Chinook and Fennec differ most: the
> > first uses an own UI providing -as for today- much better performance
> > that XUL, a component that seems like needing more work before being
> > really fit in mobile devices. Are we going to keep this difference in
> > the future? Time we tell. Both teams have a lot of work to do anyway.
> >
> > But in fact the best part of this Mozilla browsers comparison is not the
> > numbers competition part but the human collaboration part. The Mozilla
> > and Nokia developers are collaborating and both projects are in sync.
> > The current development of the Mozilla browser for Diablo+1 is based
> > directly on the Gecko trunk and we are discussing ways of deepening the
> > collaboration, also at a community level. Imagine the wide community of
> > Firefox add-on developers targeting the maemo platform - that would be
> fun.
> >
> > We are even having some common exercises of exploration, both sides
> > learning a lot i.e. Qt support -
> > http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/05/06/well-isnt-that-qt/
> >
> > Conclusion: We are as happy as you seeing the performance progress done
> > by the Fennec project. We feel honored by them targeting our platform in
> > the first place. Nokia is doing the right thing with the Mozilla
> > development. Lots of potential for collaboration and cool stuff.
> >
> > --
> > Quim Gil
> > marketing manager, open source
> > maemo software @ Nokia
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