Fennec/NativeUI

Features

• Awesome Bar – Go to your favorite sites in just a couple of keystrokes with intelligent and personalized searching
• Firefox Sync – Sync your Firefox tabs, history, bookmarks and passwords between your desktop and mobile device for a seamless browsing experience
• Tabbed browsing – View open tabs as thumbnails to easily identify and select the Web page you’d like to go to next

• Fast - Instantly startup (<300ms)
• Small - Low memory usage (consistent with other browsers)
• Energy - Doesn't eat your battery

Background

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Known Issue

Near Term

• tabs (dougt)
• reload (gcp)
• progress handling
• session history (thebnich)
• Dialogs
• door hangers (gcp)
• preferences (alexp)
• addons
• bookmarking
• Panning perf (clord)
• zooming perf (clord)
• IME (For example, focus in a text area, then try move focus outside the text area.)
• Use AsyncTask. https://github.com/snorp/mozilla-central/blob/faster/embedding/android/GeckoApp.java#L304
• Move AwesomeBar functionality in GeckoApp to avoid that kill brian was seeing (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3596446/threads-interrupted-when-new-activity-is-started-android)
• Don't initialize this early. https://github.com/snorp/mozilla-central/blob/faster/embedding/android/GeckoApp.java#L383. So far, the only usage is here: https://github.com/snorp/mozilla-central/blob/faster/embedding/android/GeckoAppShell.java#L1717 -- which is after a page has loaded. I would recommend the initialization happen right there, when the mDb is null. Or probably at the end of onCreate in GeckApp.java
• https://github.com/snorp/mozilla-central/blob/faster/embedding/android/AwesomeBar.java#L178 -- This can be moved to an AsyncTask. A database access can happen in the background and the results can be pushed to the UI. In that way, the responsiveness of AwesomeBar will be faster and better.
• Setting the FilterQueryProvider automatically processes the SQL in a background thread (see http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/CursorAdapter.html#runQueryOnBackgroundThread%28java.lang.CharSequence%29). I verified this by adding a Thread.sleep() call in the filter - the UI remains responsive.

Mid Term

Sync support (thebnich) ** see https://github.com/rnewman/clj-weave to start page info sharing Ability to pan around last screen shot. Remove unused cruft from the APK.

Longer term

Download find on page selection removing xul