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After an almost month long release candidate, Mozilla has released the final version of Firefox Mobile for Maemo devices.
Firefox Mobile is almost a direct port of it’s big brother Firefox, with a completely redesigned user interface for touch screens.
The browser includes the awesome bar, a download manager, early HTML5 support, tabbed browsing, add on support, [...]
Firefox Mobile RC 1 (formerly known as Fennec) is now available for Nokia’s Maemo mobile platform.
This includes devices such as the Nokia N900 and N810.
Firefox Mobile is essentially Firefox 3.5 under the hod, with a new graphical user interface for the mobile device. This means that you get the same rendering engine (supporting some HTML5 [...]
In: Fennec
8 Oct 2009Mozilla have today released Fennec 1.0 beta 4 for Maemo enabled Nokia devices.
Changes since beta 3 include:
Build now works on the N900
Streamlined bookmarking, editing, and management
Install and manage search engines
Improved touch-friendly theme
Improved panning and zooming performance
Support for add-on options in the Add-ons Manager
Integration with Maemo5 system UI controls
Notification of tabs opened in the background
Numerous other [...]
In: Fennec
26 Aug 2009The Mozilla Mobile team have reached another milestone, releasing Beta 3 of the Fennec browser for Maemo based Nokia phones.
“We’ve made big improvements to kinetic panning and added the ability to scroll iframes. A lot of work has been done to make our theme more robust, taking advantage of things like media queries to [...]
In: Fennec
29 Jun 2009Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox has been updated for both Nokia and Windows Mobile phones.
Fennec Beta 2 for Nokia devices includes a new theme, built-in JavaScript error console, and improved add-on support. Full changes can be found in the release notes.
For the Windows Mobile users, Fennec Alpha 2 increases performance, polishes the user interface, [...]
In: Fennec
18 May 2009Mozilla has today released Fennec Alpha 1 for Windows Mobile. Until now, to use the new mobile browser you needed either a Nokia N800/N810 or an HTC Touch Pro.
This new release worked with Windows Mobile 6 devices and includes new memory management technology (the same used in Firefox), a user interface designed with CSS, and [...]
In: Firefox
19 Mar 2009The mobile version of Firefox, Fennec has now hit it’s first beta. It currently only works on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, but it also installs on computers for the aid of developers.
There have been many improvements since it’s early public alpha release, including TraceMonkey, Mozilla’s new JavaScript powerhouse.
This release also includes the Smart URL [...]
In: Browser Watch| Firefox
12 Feb 2009Mozilla has just released Firefox for Windows Mobile. Under the name of Fennec, which is the very first public release of the browser.
You can install Fennec on an HTC Touch Pro by navigating to the installation cab file in your exsisting browser. This will then start the installation of the browser.
Early reports vary, with some [...]
Mozilla has been working hard on it’s mobile version of Firefox dubbed Fennec. Building on top of Firefox 3’s reduced memory footprint, Mozilla is aiming to bring the desktop browsing experience to your mobile.
With the hastened development, the latest version of Fennec scores a very impressive 88/100 in the Acid3 test on Windows Mobile. In [...]