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by eiji 5497 days ago
I still believe Firefox is well on track on the desktop, however, I'm becoming frustrated with it's performance on mobile devices (in my case Android 2.2 Galaxy Tab). And I'm wondering if this is a strategic failure. Firefox is not available on all Android devices, and in my case, it does install, but is unusable. My none-tech opinion: I don't care what processor my phone or tablet has, when I go into the Android Marketplace, I expect to find Firefox, no matter what device and what Android version. There is a browser preinstalled (I guess some chrome/webkit thing), so it's not rocket science. I'm more and more tempted to play around with other browsers to share bookmarks and stuff between desktop and mobile, and Firefox is falling short.
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I definitely agree with you on the speed issues. I really tried to use Firefox Mobile because I liked Sync, but it's just too slow. It takes forever to start. I'm back to the default Android browser now.