Your argument is way off. It's not like Engadget was suggesting the name be different across each mobile operating system. In other words, if Engadget had said Firefox should have a different name for the Symbian version than the Windows Mobile version, your statement would be appropriate. Cross-platform web browsers usually have a different name for handset versions. Opera has "Opera Mobile" and "Opera Mini". Internet Explorer has "Internet Explorer Mobile". Sorry, but I think I responded mostly because I hate the snarky "slow news day?" comments people leave when they don't like a certain post. I think most people were expecting a different name for the mobile version, so this is newsworthy. Not groundbreaking, but what ever is on Engadgetmobile? It's a freakin' phone blog. And if you want to criticize tell it to Phonearena since they're the ones who broke the story in the first place.
I loaded the beta on my PC, and ... its was not to impressive. Does the beta use the latest/new adobe lite? If it does, then I'm sticking with SkyFire as Fennec/Foxfire/FireFox/whatever didn't play flash at Fancast or Hulu.
Fennec is not remotely like Firefox. It has an entirely different UI, for one. Other than the underlying technologies, all it has in common with Firefox is that they're both Mozilla projects.
It makes as much sense to call Fennec "Firefox" as it does to rename the Honda Odyssey to the Pilot, because the Pilot and Odyssey have the same engine and they're both made by Honda.
Ok, that was a van/SUV analogy rather than a car analogy, but you get my drift.
I could like with "Firefox Mobile" or "Firefox Lite", but just Firefox? That's madness.
“Measuring 21.5 inches each, with 1920 x 1080 resolution, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, and optical multitouch technology under their chunky bezels, these two models represent the biggest mainstream push for touchscreen computing yet.”
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Slow news day? Is Firefox under different names for Macs, Windows or Linux? Nope. This makes more sense than you think. ;)
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Your argument is way off. It's not like Engadget was suggesting the name be different across each mobile operating system. In other words, if Engadget had said Firefox should have a different name for the Symbian version than the Windows Mobile version, your statement would be appropriate. Cross-platform web browsers usually have a different name for handset versions. Opera has "Opera Mobile" and "Opera Mini". Internet Explorer has "Internet Explorer Mobile".
Sorry, but I think I responded mostly because I hate the snarky "slow news day?" comments people leave when they don't like a certain post. I think most people were expecting a different name for the mobile version, so this is newsworthy. Not groundbreaking, but what ever is on Engadgetmobile? It's a freakin' phone blog. And if you want to criticize tell it to Phonearena since they're the ones who broke the story in the first place.
I loaded the beta on my PC, and ... its was not to impressive. Does the beta use the latest/new adobe lite? If it does, then I'm sticking with SkyFire as Fennec/Foxfire/FireFox/whatever didn't play flash at Fancast or Hulu.
Fennec is not remotely like Firefox. It has an entirely different UI, for one. Other than the underlying technologies, all it has in common with Firefox is that they're both Mozilla projects.
It makes as much sense to call Fennec "Firefox" as it does to rename the Honda Odyssey to the Pilot, because the Pilot and Odyssey have the same engine and they're both made by Honda.
Ok, that was a van/SUV analogy rather than a car analogy, but you get my drift.
I could like with "Firefox Mobile" or "Firefox Lite", but just Firefox? That's madness.