Fennec - Mozilla For Mobile Launched !

Posted by Jerry Ong |

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Oct 20

Mozilla has officially launched “Fennec”, the Mobile version of Mozilla Browser, the first release is for OS2008 (”Maemo”) Platform which is there in Nokia N810 Internet tablet.

Fennec on Nokia N810

Fennec releases are provided as .deb packages and can be installed directly to your N810 from the Application Manager. But first, you’ll need to configure your Application Manager to look in the Mozilla repository. That’s easy to do and once you do it, you won’t need to worry about it again. Here is the quick information for setting up the Application Manager:

Distribution: chinook (Note: The chinook builds work on diablo as well.

More Installation information at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Releases

Fennec Alpha Walkthrough from Madhava Enros on Vimeo.

Features of Fennec

# Bookmarking with Tags
# Tabbed Browsing Support (this is cool)
# Easy access to major Search Engines
# Inbuilt Pop-Up Blocker
# Password Manager
# Download Manager
# Customization and Preference Tab

Also check out :

# Fennec vision statement
# Fennec version 1 requirements
# Fennec user experience
# Fennec install instructions and release notes

Jerry Says……

Hurray! long wait Mozilla for Mobile Browser had finally launch but still no right version for my HTC mobile but i think Fennec will support more mobile device and platform in near future. Also wish there is plugin available to sync my pc based firefox with mobile based fennec.

via [Fennec Release]

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