Hey guys. I'm new around here, but you guys have been a huge help thus far. I'm just wondering if Firefox is available for the storm? Or if you all just use the standard blackberry browser or if there is something better out there i should download.
let me know what you think. thanks!
There is unlikely ever to be a Firefox like browser for the Storm. I'm not saying it's impossible, or will never be done, but the Gecko engine that powers Firefox is written in C\C++, and everything for the Storm has to be written in Java. The two languages are similar enough that if you know one picking up the other is fairly easy, but it would be a very considerable undertaking to port a program the size of Frenic to the Storm.
Right now the mobile version of Firefox will only be released for WinMo phones. The Jesus Phone is unlikely since Apple will never allow any competition to Safari, and Google's Android is also a Java platform like the BB OS.
Really, our best bet is someone taking the Webkit port used in Google's Android, adapting it to work on the Storm, and creating a browser around it. For those that don't know, Webkit is the rendering engine used in Apple's Safari both on OS X and the Jesus Phone. It's also the engine used in Google's Chrome browser, and the browser in the Android platform. It also has a very close cousin in KHTML, which technically gave birth to Webkit a few years back. It's not always quite as capable as Gecko which is what's used in Firefox, but it is pretty good.
Anyway... No point getting your hopes up for a mobile firefox for the Storm, because it probably won't be happening... Ever.
I have a few issues with Opera Mini on the BB Storm:
1) Can not zoom a page
2) Does not recognize the screen clicking. You have to touch the link with a certain amount of pressure.
3) Symbols and 123 Keyboards are not recognized.
Opera mini sucks...you misewell use standard browser till they update opera for the storm. Anyone claiming its better is just striving to be different. Our phone just came out give it another month and I bet something better will be out by opera or the stock will be improved via updates.
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Firefox is just the emulation the browser will not be coming for quite a while
Originally Posted by inssane
Please include a screenshot.
Correct me if I am wrong, but it's not out yet.
Originally Posted by inssane
It's OK - I am looking forward to it, so I scurried to my phone fast to quadruple check.
Originally Posted by ADay8945
Definitely not any time soon. It's in very early alpha at the moment.
The firefox browser for mobile devices is called fennec. They have some releases to test on your pc and it actually seems pretty nice. It is still in the very early stages and I highly doubt that it will be coded in java (because java sucks, A LOT, other than the portability) so it will have to be ported to java, all in all its just going to be a long time for blackberry users.
I am satisfied with the bb browser except for the keyboard lag. I suspect that if text input boxes would pop up their own window like the opera browser, the lag would be eliminated. I'd gladly take the inconvenience of a text input window popping up over this damned lag. When opera mini comes out for storm we will all be happy. We'll still have our bb browsers to go back to if pages don't load right on opera.
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atlast he didnt use an ! like some people do which makes it evn worse.
as far as opera mini, its awesome! but SUCKS for the storm currently. its so bad i wont even use it. it makes you realize how awesome the click screen is. but even so, its still bad. it was clearly made to work with the trackball.
