Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 on Windows CE

Which version is that? I've run across a good 9 or 10 different firefox builds for ce6 over the last few months but none get further than the splash screen on mine.

Cheers.

From what I've been able to find out subsequently, this won't work on CE5 and the device needs to support DirectDraw in full.

Did anyone try fennec (FF Mobile)? http://cid-30f50c1bf7f56351.office.live.com/browse.aspx/Firefox-win...

Fennec works on my CE 6 devices as well, but it's painfully slow.

RTFM, the version I'm using is the ARMv4i version. The other two will open on the WM8505 and ZT-180, but not on the TinyBook.

If they make the source code available is it possible to compile that to another (I mean, older) platform?

Edited by ntware 2011-05-05 10:50 PM

Anything is possible, it's just 0 and 1's.

It isn't practical however without a team of coders all with the same test devices and quite a bit of free time.

Well sounds like another + for those CE6 smartbooks. A modern browser is what everyone wants

On my CE6 minibook none of them will run. I get part way through the splash screen, and it either hangs, or gives the "serious error" message. Pity.

It's Firefox. The source has always been available since day 1. Running about:buildconfig in the url bar gives the link to the source used and the build configuration.

about:buildconfig 
 

Source 

 

Built from https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/9fe099137d5e 

Build platform 

target 

arm-unknown-wince 

 

Build tools 

Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags 

r:/Nomoroka-Pure/dist/sdk/bin/arm-wince-gcc 	15.00.20720 	-TC -nologo -W3 -Gy -Fdgenerated.pdb -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -Ox 

r:/Nomoroka-Pure/dist/sdk/bin/arm-wince-gcc 	15.00.20720 	-GR- -TP -nologo -Zc:wchar_t- -W3 -Gy -Fdgenerated.pdb -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -Ox 

 

Configure arguments 

--enable-optimize --enable-jemalloc --disable-updater --enable-splashscreen --enable-faststripe --disable-tests --enable-libxul --disable-windows-mobile-components --target=arm-wince --enable-win32-target=WINCE --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-windows --disable-ogg '--with-wince-sdk=C:\Program Files\Windows CE Tools\wce500\STANDARDSDK_500' --enable-application=browser --disable-javaxpcom --disable-accessibility --disable-printing --disable-oji --disable-vista-sdk-requirements --disable-installer --disable-dbm --enable-plugins --enable-xpinstall --enable-single-profile 

Dana: I wouldn't be too disappointed. It's horribly slow on my tinybook, and its also stripped down to the point that you cant even install any add-ons (which would have made the slowness worth it). I'd still recommend ZetaKey, Iris or Opera mini browsers if you want modern with usable speed on CE.

Cheers.

I didn't find it horribly slow on my TinyBook, though it is definitely slower than Opera Mini. It seems tolerable if you're multitasking. I'm also getting similar results on the Wabook Sky I just picked up. It actually seems a bit faster on the Wabook than on my 7" WM8505 netbook, even though the Wabook has the same processor. As I said, it seems to have potential, if the Mozilla folks or some other programming-savvy people are willing to keep working on it.