Firefox for Mobile: Fennec alpha 1 is available now!
By Denis (on 10/21/2008 @ 09:01:58, in IT World, linked 1029 times)
Mozilla have just released the first alpha version of Fennec: the mobile version of Firefox. At the moment Fennec can run only on Nokia N810 Internet Tablets; if you don't have such mobile, then you can always try Fennec in a Desktop environment. Fennec, even if still in alpha stage, supports:
- Bookmarks, including tags
- Smart URL bar ("awesome bar")
- Tabbed browsing with thumbnail images
- Integrated Web search - built into the URL bar
- Easy access to multiple search engines
- Zoom in and out
- Click on a phone number to initiate a call
- JavaScript API to get device location
- etc.
It's difficult to say now if Fennec will win the battle against Opera Mobile, Safari Mobile and others; for sure, the possibility to develop add-ons will help Fennec as it did for Firefox. If you are still curios, you can see a video of Fennec.
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