Fennec to be known as Firefox... just Firefox

by Darren Murph posted Feb 26th 2009 at 6:52PM

Fennec, as it has become so well known, is the codename for Mozilla's attempt to bring Firefox to the mobile realm. As it closes in on a final release, everyone (and seriously, we mean everyone) is wondering what the darn piece of software will actually go by. WMExperts has learned that the browser will simply be titled Firefox -- not Mobile Firefox, not Firefox for Mobiles, just Firefox. We needn't tell you just how confusing this is going to get, but whatever, so long as this gets pushed out on the double, we'll call it anything it wants.

[Via phoneArena]

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Tags: browser, fennec, Firefox, mobile Firefox, MobileFirefox, web browser, WebBrowser

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Brent Schmidt @ Feb 26th 2009 7:32PM

So you DO want multiple version names for Firefox, but DON'T want multiple names for Windows OS versions. Right...

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Level 5 @ Feb 26th 2009 8:12PM

Slow news day? Is Firefox under different names for Macs, Windows or Linux? Nope. This makes more sense than you think. ;)

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Malkmus @ Feb 26th 2009 8:42PM

Level 5,

Your argument is way off. It's not like Engadget was suggesting the name be different across each mobile operating system. In other words, if Engadget had said Firefox should have a different name for the Symbian version than the Windows Mobile version, your statement would be appropriate. Cross-platform web browsers usually have a different name for handset versions. Opera has "Opera Mobile" and "Opera Mini". Internet Explorer has "Internet Explorer Mobile".
Sorry, but I think I responded mostly because I hate the snarky "slow news day?" comments people leave when they don't like a certain post. I think most people were expecting a different name for the mobile version, so this is newsworthy. Not groundbreaking, but what ever is on Engadgetmobile? It's a freakin' phone blog. And if you want to criticize tell it to Phonearena since they're the ones who broke the story in the first place.

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gunner23 @ Feb 26th 2009 10:14PM

I loaded the beta on my PC, and ... its was not to impressive. Does the beta use the latest/new adobe lite? If it does, then I'm sticking with SkyFire as Fennec/Foxfire/FireFox/whatever didn't play flash at Fancast or Hulu.

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squiggleslash @ Feb 27th 2009 11:35AM

Fennec is not remotely like Firefox. It has an entirely different UI, for one. Other than the underlying technologies, all it has in common with Firefox is that they're both Mozilla projects.

It makes as much sense to call Fennec "Firefox" as it does to rename the Honda Odyssey to the Pilot, because the Pilot and Odyssey have the same engine and they're both made by Honda.

Ok, that was a van/SUV analogy rather than a car analogy, but you get my drift.

I could like with "Firefox Mobile" or "Firefox Lite", but just Firefox? That's madness.

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SMOKiN @ Feb 26th 2009 8:18PM

This is great !!

Because the name fennec just sux...

and Firefox is THE name for multiplatform browsing using mozilla products !

fifrefox for winmobile, for symbian, and why not for i-shitz

hopes that it can be a sort of skyfire+opera combined with full flash support on all websites =)

if it didnt work great with fiull flash support, i think that adobe wil have the opportinity to open is own browser for mobile devices