Windows mobile users can now get set to experience a better and much enhanced browsing experience as the Fennec alpha 3 is ready to be explored, reveals the Mozilla Blog. This new version will bring along great features, fixes with improved start time, better planning and compositor work along with support for a wider range of screen resolutions.
The Mozilla team also discloses that there will be two distinctive changes that a user wont miss. The first being an improved start up time, this has been made possible by Brian Crowder who has taken the Vladimir Vukicevic’s original dabblings for Firefox on Windows CE. Doing this has led to creating a cross platform fast start daemon for Mozilla. Well, there is one glitch here that the faster startup time will not be put to effect until the phone has been rebooted.
The second visible change made is the improved planning with the now implemented tile cache rendering system, which is a lot like Google Maps. This allows to cache content that has been rendered previously and avoids duplicating the work. This change also permits the switch to native scrolling services and as a consequence leads to improved panning performance. Besides this, what helps planning performance is Robert O’Callahan’s compositor work. This reduced the amount of native widgets that users have to deal with when rendering or scrolling. Hence, this change allows them to keep track of the invalidated regions themselves rather than relying on the system to do so.
The Mozilla team hopes that users will give this version a try as they promise to have made much progress since they launched the Alpha 2.