Firefox codename Fennec Browser 6X Faster than MicroB (built in browseron Nokia N810)

Firefox codename Fennec Browser 6X Faster than MicroB (built in browser on Nokia N810). The latest nightly of Firefox browser for mobile, codename Fennec was tested by Ars-technica, and the result, it's 600% faster than the latest public version of Nokia's Maemo OS which runs on Nokia N810 and N800 internet tablets, called MicroB. Mozilla technical evangelist Chris Blizzard notes that the optimization work has produced even more gains on ARM than on x86.

MicroB, a built-in browser for Nokia N810 Internet Tablet uses a fork of Firefox's Gecko rendering engine that dates back to the earliest Firefox 3 alpha series. Comparing MicroB with the latest build of Fennec on an N810 provides some insight into just how much mobile Firefox performance has improved during the Firefox 3 development cycle. Blizzard ran SunSpider benchmark tests with both browsers on the N810 and found that Fennec's JavaScript execution performance is 5.9 times faster than that of MicroB.