Palemoon for Android?

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osaeed

Palemoon for Android?

Unread post by osaeed » 2012-04-25, 21:42

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After trying out Firefox on Android, it was not a terrible experience at all. However, I am curious to know if Palemoon devs have any plans to bring Palemoon browser to Android? I am sure it will run much faster than Firefox Mobile

Is the difficulty because of porting to an ARM processor?

Keep up the good work :thumbup:

Thank you!
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lyceus

Re: Palemoon for Android?

Unread post by lyceus » 2012-04-26, 04:09

osaeed wrote:After trying out Firefox on Android, it was not a terrible experience at all. However, I am curious to know if Palemoon devs have any plans to bring Palemoon browser to Android? I am sure it will run much faster than Firefox Mobile

Is the difficulty because of porting to an ARM processor?

Keep up the good work :thumbup:

Thank you!
Heh! I have an Android tablet and asked for the same question sometime to Moonchild. LOL! :mrgreen: No, sadly Pale Moon is only for Windows, since is a stable code for optimize. Sadly, if you heard the news, several developers have bad times making apps for Android, since there are lots of hardware models to support: Different screens, processors, memory, sensors (wifi, 3G, accelerometer), etc, etc.

The trouble is not port Pale Moon for ARM processor, but for tune it for all the hardware around. That need real tests in real hardware. One game app maker said that they need to support more than 30 versions of their games and always a new device breaks the code. So for the moment I dunno that Pale Moon will be in more Os than Windows and Linux (through Wine).
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Re: Palemoon for Android?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2012-04-26, 17:28

Actually, there are no current or future plans to port Pale Moon over to any other platform. Pale Moon is strictly for Windows Operating Systems, an nothing else: no Mac, no Android, no native Linux, no OS/2, etc. - and this will not change.
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Re: Palemoon for Android?

Unread post by stravinsky » 2012-04-27, 03:56

Oh you Windows fanboi :D
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Re: Palemoon for Android?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2012-04-27, 08:36

stravinsky wrote:Oh you Windows fanboi :D
Let me quote something here:
Wikipedia wrote:Net Applications has estimated global desktop market share of Windows 92.2%, Apple 6.36%, Linux 1.41%.
Do I want to develop a non-mainstream browser on different platforms for a combined total of 7.8% of users globally? That would almost be like making a commissioned build for a classroom full of people ;)
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osaeed

Re: Palemoon for Android?

Unread post by osaeed » 2012-05-10, 01:24

Moonchild wrote:
Let me quote something here:
Wikipedia wrote:Net Applications has estimated global desktop market share of Windows 92.2%, Apple 6.36%, Linux 1.41%.
Do I want to develop a non-mainstream browser on different platforms for a combined total of 7.8% of users globally? That would almost be like making a commissioned build for a classroom full of people ;)
Aha! I understand. Its better to focus on Windows since they are more users than any other operating system.

Thank you for your wonderful software!

Have a great day!
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