Mobile Firefox Alpha 1 Released

An anonymous reader writes "Today Mozilla released development builds of its next mobile browser, Fennec 1.0 Alpha 1. 'The last eight milestones were building up to getting a stable browser with an easy to use interface. We really want to get Fennec in front of as many people as possible and get feedback.' To that end, Fennec has been made available for the desktop on Windows, Mac and Linux."

Comments

OS X Intel Only

[gEvil (beta)]

The OS X version is Intel only. This probably won't affect most of you, but it does kinda suck for those of us still on PPC machines.

Re:Windows Linux Mac.

[Dolda2000]

Indeed, that's exactly what the summary said. They made it "available for the desktop", "to get Fennec in front of as many people as possible".

Re:More Standard compliant?

[i.of.the.storm]

And Firefox 3.1 nightlies score better than that, around 93/94 if I recall correctly. Fennec is running nightly versions of Gecko.

Re:Article already Slashdotted

[jDeepbeep]

Going to the official Firefox site and searching for "fennec" matched nothing. Yea! With it being so easy to get, I'll be trying it "real soon now".

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/FennecVision

Re:Minimo2

[Colonel Korn]

I'm curious to see how this performs on a real mobile device compared to Minimo. Wikipedia seems to indicate it's being pushed by the same developer, Doug Turner. I was never able to get even runnable performance out of Minimo, but there's definitely a market for a better mobile browser. I just updated my Q9m to WM 6.1 and Pocket IE is still garbage. The other alternatives like Skyfire & Iris show potential, but they are not there yet.

Opera Mobile's not a bad browser at all.