Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts

Feb 19, 2015

Run desktop apps, WebKit and Chromium web browser on Firefox OS!

Firefox OS is a fully open source mobile platform, but it lacks many full-featured apps. Starting from today, RollApp provides full desktop apps for Firefox OS, including LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, Tomboy, KeePassX and File Roller. The apps are loaded on RollApp cloud servers and are streamed using WebSockets, which make them run smoothly.


You can even run the Web browser, powered by WebKit, which you can start by typing any URL in Tomboy and clicking on it.


The Web browser is really fast, it gets 6568 points in the Octane benchmark.

UPDATE: Now you can run Chromium web browser in Firefox OS! It scores 9677 points in the Octane benchmark.



All RollApp apps can be found in the Firefox Marketplace.

Sep 25, 2013

The best Android browser is... Opera!

I have tested the most popular web browsers on Android Jelly Bean: Stock Android Browser, Google Chrome 29, Opera 16, Opera Mobile Classic 12.1, Mozilla Firefox 24 and Dolphin Browser 10 with Jetpack. While Opera and Opera Classic have an Off-road or Turbo mode, which speeds up loading websites, it was disabled for this test. Here is the comparison table, two best results are green:

BrowserBrowsermarkOctane BenchmarkHTML5 TestCSS3 Test
Stock Browser21321175327 + 1445
Chrome22401951429 + 1160
Opera26502089443 + 1162
Opera Classic1740571406 + 1252
Firefox20712253426 + 1058
Dolphin20081544471 + 357

The best Android web browser, in terms of performance and compliance to web standards, is the new Opera! However, Dolphin has the best support for HTML5 and Chrome with Firefox are almost as fast as Opera.