On Friday, Mozilla Foundation released early developer release of the mobile version of Firefox, for testing purposes only, intended to:
- get wider community feedback on our approach to the user experience
- engage Mozilla community teams, including localizers, add-on developers, and testers
- get feedback from Web developers
This first alpha release is available for the OS2008 (“Maemo”) software platforms that runs on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablets. Here is a download link to install Fennec to Nokia N810. Mozilla also released Fennec’s desktop PC version. All the versions can be downloaded from here.
Few details of Fennec from it’s homepage:
- Easy navigation to Web content:
- 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
- Web content:
- Maximize content by auto-hiding controls and URL bar
- Zoom in and out
- Security:
- Instant Web site ID (“Larry”)
- Password manager
- Popup blocker
- Clear private data
- Devices services integration:
- Click on a phone number to initiate a call
- JavaScript API to get device location
- Popup blocker
- Clear private data
- Also:
- Searchable download manager
- Preferences pane