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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. Re:I'm impressed by clone53421 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot | Mobile Firefox Alpha 1 Released - Mozilla Firefox

    Dude... the " - Mozilla Firefox" at the end is because that's what you're using... :P

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  3. 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

    1. Re:More Standard compliant? by i.of.the.storm · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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  4. Re:iphone by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about a version that only works at night then?

  5. 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?

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  6. Re:I'm impressed by Firehed · · Score: 4, Funny

    A sleeping mascot? Goes great with the speed of mobile data connections I guess.

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  7. 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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  8. Re:slashdot brings down another blog by mustafap · · Score: 4, Funny

    Full Fennec details here : http://www.whitehouse.gov/

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  9. Re:I'm impressed by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have one in my house that belongs to my girlfriend. I don't play with her much because she is too aggressive with me

    And this, boys and girls, is an example of the fact that pronouns do not always enhance readability.

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