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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."
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.
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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".
'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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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.
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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.
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Dude... the " - Mozilla Firefox" at the end is because that's what you're using... :P
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Fennec scores higher on the Acid3 test than Firefox 3.0.3. Well at least running on a windows PC
How about a version that only works at night then?
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.
Or developers. From the blog entry:
"That's right, you can install Fennec on your Windows, OS X or Linux desktop too! We want you to be able to experiment, provide feedback, write add-ons and generally get involved with the Mozilla Mobile project, even if you don't have a device."
A sleeping mascot? Goes great with the speed of mobile data connections I guess.
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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.
Sadly, PS/2 was yet another victim of USB, which doesn't care what you plug into it, the electrical slut.
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.
Sadly, PS/2 was yet another victim of USB, which doesn't care what you plug into it, the electrical slut.
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
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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
Here's the actual FTP links http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/fennec-1.0a1.en-US.win32.zip http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/fennec-1.0a1.en-US.mac.dmg http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/fennec-1.0a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
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After some poking around and a bit of google-fu I found this: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/ which has all the builds. There's also instructions in installing it on a Nokia N810 here.
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Full Fennec details here : http://www.whitehouse.gov/
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And this, boys and girls, is an example of the fact that pronouns do not always enhance readability.
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especially stupid considering Symbian S60 makes up well over half of the smartphone market worldwide - 64% last time I checked. Not that you'll notice this if you live in the States, land of Blackberry and iPhone, but it dominates the EMEA and APAC markets - I've been using several S60 phones from Samsung and Nokia for a few months for testing and they frankly blow everything else away in terms of usability (holy crap it's a PHONE FIRST), interface design (clean and extensible) and as convergence devices.
One problem with a Firefox browser for S60 is that it's playing catch-up to the likes of Skyfire and the integrated browser. It would be nice to see Firefox on smartphones though.
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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:
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.
Dude... the " - Mozilla Firefox" at the end is because that's what you're using... :P
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ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/ :)
posted using fennec on aspire one running ubuntu
untar and click on fennec
it's a little strange scrolling is done by click and drag but its working wit fine on here
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No, Fennec is a (small) species of fox that has large ears
I've tried installing this a couple times on an N810 (last week) and both times it completely messed up xulrunner. Couldn't remove it, update it, reinstall it, nothin'. If you are planning on testing it on an N810, make sure you are prepared to backup and flash if necessary (I was still able to use the device after xulrunner died, but my other browser, microb stopped working).
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.
The one-click install didn't work, but the step-by-step instructions worked fine.
It seems to run pretty slow. Can't seem to enter any text into the address bar.
Disabled Javascript and now I can enter a URL - not sure if that's related.
It needs a lot of work (it is an alpha) but it's exciting that they've gotten this far.
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.
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... could use Fennec right now. :-)