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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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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?
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A sleeping mascot? Goes great with the speed of mobile data connections I guess.
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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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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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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.
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Full Fennec details here : http://www.whitehouse.gov/
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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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