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Does anyone know what the hardware requirements are? The market will let me install it on a samsung galaxy but not an lg optimus. Is it the cpu speed of the opt
by trotsky 16y ago
Does anyone know what the hardware requirements are? The market will let me install it on a samsung galaxy but not an lg optimus. Is it the cpu speed of the optimus or something else? I can't seem to find a list of requirements anywhere.
EDIT: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android#System_Requirements https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android#System_Req...
It is the CPU generation. "Release builds of Firefox require a phone with an ARMv7 processor" and the Optimus has an ARMv6.
Is anyone from mozilla or otherwise familiar with how badly it would run if I built it myself with a v6 target?
- mbrubeck 16y agoHi, I'm a member of the mobile Firefox team at Mozilla. Building for ARMv7-only lets us use the Thumb-2 instruction set, which results in code that is smaller, faster, and uses less memory. We used to have ARMv6 builds available, but at this point the browser is not really optimized enough to run well on older (or low-end) devices. And since we were not actively testing or supporting those builds, the code now has some crashing bugs (probably related to the JavaScript JIT) that show up only on ARMv6 builds. Without fixing those bugs, you can't actually run Firefox on ARMv6. We continue to reduce memory and CPU usage, and if it it gets good enough to support these devices then we might start working on it for a future version.
- trotsky 16y agoThanks very much for the straight dope!