Note that Alon Zakai, who published this demo, is also the person who wrote the Emscripten LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler. So I think he does deserve a cookie. :)

This is a feature we want to add, but we haven't got it yet. Until then, you can try the Bigger Text add-on, which adds simple font size controls instead.

The Android version uses the Android NDK to run Firefox's existing C and C++ code. A pure Java version would require rewriting all of that code in Java, which is a much harder task.

This article explains why the beta uses so much storage, and how we're making it smaller and faster in the next release.

See bug 591661 where this is reported - one of the comments has a (slightly annoying) workaround to use your own sync server in Fennec.

There's a bug that causes random system freezes on the original Droid and the Droid 2: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.mozilla.org%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D602252 Unfortunately we just discovered this today, too late to fix it for beta 1. We'll fix it before the stable release, of course.

The beta release requires a newer processor than the Hero. See the system requirements page for details, and an experimental (non-optimized) build for older and low-end phones.

Note: I am on the Mobile Firefox development team.

Load time is definitely an issue on Maemo. The built-in MicroB browser uses "faststart" which means that it starts a process when the device starts up, and that process stays in memory even after you close the browser. Firefox 1.1 doesn't use faststart, but we and Nokia are working on it for version 2 which will be the default MeeGo browser.

The "fennec" process running after you close the window is a bug, and one that I don't think we've seen before. If you'd like to help us solve it, you can report it here or to bugzilla.mozilla.org. Thanks!

Note: I am on the FIrefox Mobile development team.

MeeGo for Handsets is actually based heavily on Maemo. From our point of view at least, it's an incremental change rather than a complete replacement. Firefox for MeeGo will be an evolution of Firefox for Maemo. Of course, it helps that the bulk of Firefox code is already platform- and toolkit-agnostic - for example, we already have Qt builds for Maemo 5.

When I clicked "read more," Slashdot displayed exactly 42 full comments.

Back when Apple's aquisition of NeXT was first announced, Apple had indicated that they'd continue to support OPENSTEP Enterprise (the Windows implementation of OpenStep). But it was killed off pretty quick.

You can swap arms if you're very careful, but if you don't do it just right they can break. The LEGO company doesn't consider them removable.

The first batch of the original 1989 pirate sets did have the firing cannons even in the US. My 6285 Black Seas Barracuda (awesome set) and 6270 Forbidden Island (not nearly as nice) both had them.

Later batches of those same sets had the disabled cannon, and later pirate sets (and the western sets) had the no-moving-parts cannon in their North American versions.

What luck! I was just diagnosed with terminal cancer, and my doctor said I had 3 months to live! Does the FDA know about this new treatment?