We knew the
Fennec alpha was but moments away from release, but at long last, the wait is over. Mozilla has crafted a dedicated page for the early, early version of
Mobile Firefox along with release notes, known issues, tips / tricks and installation instructions. Speaking of which, this release was made to be used solely on the
N800 or
N810 Internet Tablet from Nokia, though there are versions available for Windows, OS X and Linux computers in case you want to dabble from the comfort of your desktop / laptop. We won't bother keeping you any longer -- feast your eyes on the links below for all sorts of long-awaited mobile browsing goodness.
[Via
NetworkWorld]
Read - Mozilla Fennec page
Read - Fennec video walkthrough
Read - Fennec on Windows Mobile screenshot
posted Oct 19th 2008 at 7:30AM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Imran @ Oct 19th 2008 11:14AM
Damn, looking good, making me miss my old N810 :(
nerdtalker @ Oct 19th 2008 4:45PM
No Windows Mobile or even Android yet? Honestly, if Mozilla isn't serious about developing for these platforms, they're wasting their time.
squiggleslash @ Oct 19th 2008 5:32PM
Seems a tad early to be promoting this. Does just about render pages, but it's very slow and there are no menus or any other ways to help customize things.
apw76006 @ Oct 19th 2008 9:02PM
I agree totally. I have been playing with Fennec for the past few hours and they should have given the application a bit more time before releasing the alpha. I do appreciate the effort and cannot wait for a fully functional version or at least the beta. Thanks Mozilla.
Ralph Gibson @ Oct 20th 2008 12:04AM
Clearly not ready for prime time. We'll know that Mozilla is serious about mobile Web when they release a Blackberry port.
Michael Jones @ Oct 20th 2008 7:57AM
Oh, boy, another cool software that won't run on my Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. What a sap I was for buying a first generation open source Linux computer. Wait! Isn't that what the Android G1 is?
Proghog @ Oct 20th 2008 7:18PM
They better make a flavor for Blackberries cuz the Opera Mini I use now is meh; only reason I use it is because it's better than the Blackberry and AT&T ones on my 8300.
Martin Greenberg @ Oct 24th 2008 9:22PM
The logo reminds me a whole lot of the rabbit masks from BioShock.