Mozilla’s mobile browser has been voiced around for a while now under the codename Fennec, also availble in Alpha and Beta versions for Windows Mobile and Maemo. You can also try it on your desktop platform if you do not own any of the supported mobile OSs, downloading it from here.
But what is this project really all about? Let’s just find out with the people behind it, the Mozilla Mobile Team:
The overall goals for Mobile Firefox are:
- Provide Mozilla’s standards-based open-source browser engine, optimized for mobile, that can be embedded by device manufacturers and others;
- A full-featured mobile browser including support for XUL-based add-ons, delivering on Firefox’s key principles of ease-of-use, security and accessibility;
- Grow the Mozilla community in the mobile space;
- Provide tools and documentation to help developers develop, debug and deploy web applications;
- Do all of this work in the shared Mozilla source repositories so all platforms, desktop and mobile, benefit each other;
There is also a video in which the team members give you a quick tour of the user interface and features of Firefox for mobile devices, including the Awesome Bar, Weave Sync, add-ons and tabbed browsing, to name a few:
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