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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."

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  1. Re:I'm impressed by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    'Fennec' is a small fox with big ears. For extra geek cred it's nocturnal. It's not cute enough for a mascot by a long ways, but it does sort of fit.

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  2. More Standard compliant? by Skifreemonster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Fennec scores higher on the Acid3 test than Firefox 3.0.3. Well at least running on a windows PC

  3. Posting from Fennec in Windows by SlashdotOgre · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So far it seems pretty interesting, although there's definitely bugs (eg. my text disappears when I'm not typing a character), but hey it's an alpha. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes, although the interface is not geared towards Windows Mobile Smartphone, it seems to be best suited for a touchscreen at the moment.

    On a side note, I didn't see any interface to specify a proxy, but I was able to set one through about:config. I have to go through an auto proxy so I just set the autoconfig_url to the URL of my proxy and the network.proxy.type to 2.

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  4. This is really very interesting. by Millennium · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The minimal UI would be perfect not just for mobile phones, but for other small-screen devices (I'd use it on my eee, for instance). This is obviously not the core market for Fennec, but I'd love to see an extension which added back just a few "desktop/laptop" conveniences:

    • Keyboard shortcuts, at least for Back, Forward, Reload, Open Location, Find (and Find Again), Print, Cut, Copy, and Paste.
    • Scrolling around in pages, not just vertically but also horizontally.
    • Some means to highlight, cut/copy, and paste.

    Again, I'm not necessarily saying these should be folded into the core Fennec distro; "full" computers aren't its main market. But an extension would be nice.