Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Mobile Firefox Alpha 1 Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the smaller-better-deal dept.

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."

7 of 148 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Windows Linux Mac. by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, those aren't mobile platforms. But if you'd read the page, you'd see that they're making these available to help get the widest number of users to provide feedback re: the interface, as well as making it available for people to begin developing plugins for it. Of course, that will probably also lower the S/N ratio re: valid feedback.

    --
    This guy's the limit!
  2. Re:I'm impressed by humina · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Classic Slashdot: You did not read the article. The webpage is plastered with the word fennec because...that's what it's called. And you got modded up to 4 which means the moderators did not read the article.

    --
    check out the best blog ever:
    http://oehlberg.com
  3. Do or will plugins eventually work ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Are the firefox plugins going to work for fennec ?

    It would be great if adblock plus would work !

  4. Re:I'm impressed by Spazztastic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not cute enough for a mascot by a long ways, but it does sort of fit.

    How is this NOT adorable?

    --
    Posts not to be taken literally. Almost everything is sarcasm.
  5. Big deal? by grimmy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Windows mobile devices have the largest share of the market, why release it for a few specific nokia models if they want the largest number of users giving them feedback?

    The desktop release don't count, desktop users will install it run it twice, think "ohh that's cute" and never run it again.

    How about those of us stuck with pocketIE and opera's offerings both of which fail miserable on something as simple as a redirect.

  6. Back and forward buttons hidden, why? by guest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It seems like a big mistake to hide the back and forward buttons, the buttons that users are frequently going to want to use. I'd much prefer that they hide the Bookmarks button and put the forward and back buttons on the main screen so I can get to them without having to move the screen to the left first.

    --
    pw:secret
  7. Anybody with EeePCs or netbooks, ... by onitzuka · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... could use Fennec right now. :-)