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Fennec beta ships, looks usable

“Nokia tablet owners who had previously installed an alpha
version of the browser were alerted to the upgrade two evenings
ago, via a blinking orange exclamation mark in their device’s upper
right-hand tool tray. The 10.9MB update can be easily installed
through the device’s package manager, once the appropriate
repositories have been added.

“Whereas the alpha version had proved quite slow and unstable,
the beta appears to go a long way toward making Fennec usable. We
did experience crashes when calling the browser’s new video plugin,
in limited testing, but overall, the browser appears to work quite
well, especially with pages that have a lot of javascript.”

Here is the same story from a Windows perspective– poor Windows
got left out of the party this time:
Fennec
beta ships — without Windows Mobile

Complete
Story

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