Skyfire Symbian closed testing started

July 27, 2008 by Asri al-Baker 

Skyfire, the other internet browser which heats up competition between Opera Mobile, Safari Mobile and Firefox Mobile, has just made available the Symbian version to selected beta users. Symbian-Freak reports that the version is running and it brings desktop-like experience (that sounds very-very cliche nowadays) like AJAX, embedded videos (FLV, WMV, QuickTime etc), Javascript… Go to the sign-up page to get in the queue.

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One Response to “Skyfire Symbian closed testing started”

  1. jared eldredge on July 28th, 2008 11:24 pm

    as symbian-freak says, if firefox can render it, so can skyfire (SF quotes this from skyfire). i have a theory:

    i think each user account on skyfire (you need to authenticate with user/pass to launch the skyfire client) loads up a modified firefox session at skyfire.com. i think this modified firefox runs on a modified X server, with the skyfire client acting as a remote X session. even the name impleis this SkyFire = Cloud based Firefox.

    that’s my theory anyways. i’m running skyfire on my N95-1 and i can say, clicking on an RSS feed bring up a FAMILIAR LOOKING ‘live bookmarks’ page…

    i only tried rss a few minutes ago - and note that asking to ‘add as live bookmark’ did nothing at all. i’ve got screenshots up at my crappy little blog - it’s never updated, so don’t bother bookmarking me - just go look at the screenshots if you care (hosted at share.ovi.com)

    http://bitflung.blogspot.com/

    -bit

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