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PreFox is now available for testing

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:30:02 +0000

I’ve finally been able to make some early alpha builds of PreFox, which is clearly a rather unoriginal name for Firefox running on the Palm Pre, available for testing. You can read more and find the builds at the release announcement.

This has been a long time coming, made that much longer by Sprint delaying the release of webOS 1.4.5 and of course Firefox 4 blockers eating into my spare time, I’m hopeful that now both builds and the source code are available some people will start to help out with getting it to be a viable alternative to the default webOS browser. Lots of the remaining work is stuff that is really outside my skill-set.

Myths and mysconceptions about Firefox on the Palm Pre

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:09:49 +0000

Since I posted last week about how I was experimenting with running Firefox on my Palm Pre a number of tech news sites, large and small, picked it up and posted their own take on it. Some of the sites (and some of the readers of those sites) made some fairly odd statements about my work. This is probably because to the uninitiated (and many of the initiated in fact) the internals of Firefox are something of a mystery. I also suspect I made a couple of poor choices of words which led to some misunderstandings so I’d like to try to clarify a couple of points that might make it easier to understand what is going on.

Firefox running on the Palm Pre (mostly)

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:02:56 +0000

One of the first things I did when I moved to the U.S. was to get myself a smartphone, and that phone was the Palm Pre. I’ve always thought it was way ahead of its competition in terms of the potential of its potential capabilities and platform. Sadly I think it is let down some by build quality and hardware issues, but I still love it as a phone and really hope that if Palm get bought they’ll continue work on it and develop a better 2nd gen version.