Mobile Firefox team shows off a few mockups
It's really early along, but the Firefox peeps are taking their first baby steps to try to flesh out exactly what Mobile Firefox is going to look like, and they'd like to know what you think. Mockups posted to Mozilla's wiki talk about the main display, history and bookmark displays, and tabbing functionality in great detail, noting differences in operation between standard and touchscreen devices (which are further subdivided between those that have QWERTY keyboards and those that do not). Though you can put aside any hope of getting an early build onto your own device, the team has posted XUL / Javascript code that'll run in Firefox on your PC and give you a partly functional idea of what's going on.
[Via Mobility Site and Mozilla Links]
[Via Mobility Site and Mozilla Links]














Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Fernando @ Feb 3rd 2008 12:25PM
Firefox is overrated, I don't see this threatening S60's webkit browser or iPhone's safari anytime soon.
Of course, I could be terribly wrong, let's hope so.
john @ Feb 3rd 2008 12:38PM
What about the "Mobile Firefox" that's already running on Maemo? Or is this specifically for Windows Mobile? (in which case, "mobile firefox" is bit of a misleading name)
NM @ Feb 3rd 2008 1:32PM
I bet it wont work on palm devices.
Whee! we stick to blazer!
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:(
Sean @ Feb 3rd 2008 2:01PM
One of my favorite things about mozilla is that if you take the icon in the left of the adress bar like the engadget symbol and drag it into where the toolbars and crap usually go and drop it there then erase the name leave the location you get just the icon and you can fit about 30 icons of all your favorite websites across the top of your browser, might not sound like a big deal but i love it. and if they included it in a mobile version it would be really nice
o rly @ Feb 3rd 2008 8:58PM
A mobile version of that ram eater? No thanks.
Numetheus @ Feb 3rd 2008 11:28PM
Wow ... what a way to copy Safari on the iPhone. I think they should make an innovative web browser for mobile devices, not a ripoff of something a well known company has made.
Numetheus @ Feb 3rd 2008 11:28PM
While FireFox on Windows Mobile will be light years beyond the Pocket IE Microsoft makes, what I see here is a duplicate of the iPhone browser. The iPhone browser already renders web pages perfectly (except for flash), and has some very nice UI elements. Why not make something better? Think outside the box instead of duplicating the work someone else has done?
miggy_san45 @ Feb 13th 2008 7:21PM
I don't know, I think I would stay with opera mini.