Milestone release of Firefox Mobile "Fennec" goes live on the Touch Pro

by Chris Ziegler posted Feb 11th 2009 at 1:05AM

Have a Touch Pro? Like surfing through cyberspace? Well golly, partner, have we got some news for you: Fennec is finally waiting for you on a silver platter. The mobile version of Firefox is still very early on in its development process, but an official pre-beta release is now ready for download -- so if you can put down IE Mobile for just a couple second, have a go at it. Odds are you won't be using it for your day-in and day-out browsing just yet, but it's nice to see what's coming down the pike.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Filed under: Software

Tags: fennec, firefox, firefox mobile, FirefoxMobile, touch pro, TouchPro, windows mobile, WindowsMobile, winmo

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Jon Nelson @ Feb 11th 2009 2:15AM

I love you guys here at Engadget Mobile, don't get me wrong, but I think this is the type of news that should be on Engadget proper. This is big stuff!

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Benzodiazepine @ Feb 11th 2009 2:40AM

No, it's ok.
No one gets you wrong, really.

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JaxChris @ Feb 11th 2009 5:28AM

Hmmm, tried with Opera and IE Mobile from my phone. The FTP server doesn't have the MIME types set to handle .cab files.
You'd think Mozilla of all people would be aware of such things.

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Chris @ Feb 11th 2009 7:11AM

Not sure why or how - that this is just for the HTC touch pro... Shouldnt it work on any phone running WinMo ???

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Level 5 @ Feb 11th 2009 7:49AM

Touch Pro users needing to "put down" IE Mobile when there's Opera on almost every TP ever made? Is that some sort of shit-for-brains joke? Really?

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Riley Freeman @ Feb 11th 2009 9:35AM

its not a big day cuz the piece of junk doesnt even work.

it takes forever to download

forever to install

the opening screen doesnt loaded just looks like a checkers board. then closes automatically and yes im using a touch pro.

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peil @ Feb 11th 2009 1:25PM

I'm using HTC FUZE and I only get a checkers board page

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Memo @ Feb 11th 2009 11:35AM

It wasn't posted here, but on an earlier post that it was coming out it said it was for the GSM version TP only and not CDMA yet. They use different processors.

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A @ Feb 11th 2009 11:36AM

works fine for me... had the same problem ure having but then did a soft reset and it runs fine :)

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A @ Feb 11th 2009 11:38AM

btw im using a Sprint TP...

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acme @ Feb 11th 2009 2:15PM

sprint TP, checked screen, doesn't work.

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myro255 @ Feb 12th 2009 11:39AM

I have a Fuze, and yes the Fuze is GSM, confirmed not working, main page wont even load for me. perhaps its a server problem?

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Anomoly @ Feb 20th 2009 9:27PM

i dl and installed on my HTC Touch (i know it's for the Touch Pro) took forever to DL and forever to Install... when i booted it literally took a minute or two to startup... and even longer to show the home screen...

ps it took the longest to uninstall... this is not even pre... pre beta/alpha...

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Derek @ Feb 11th 2009 9:50AM

What comes before Alpha?

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Brian @ Feb 11th 2009 10:14AM

Sweet make it for my iPhone to please. Not that this browser is anything to complain about.

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Level 5 @ Feb 12th 2009 10:48AM

I'm sure this will be available for iPhones eventually, if only through jailbreak. I'd be rooting for Opera though, since the company has an iPhone version already working; I'd say it could very well wind up being the first Flash enabled browser for the iPhone.

And yeah, nothing but checkered crap on my Sprint TP.

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