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Firefox for mobile "within the year"

By | December 22, 2009, 11:14am PST

The first version of the Firefox browser aimed at the cell phone market is “days away” according to the head of the project.

The browser, codenamed Fennac, will initially be aimed at the Nokia N900 handset, but versions compatible with other handsets will follow.

Speaking to BBC News, Mozilla’s Jay Sullivan said that barring any “show stoppers”, the browser could be made available to download “within the year.”

Fennac, which has been over a year and a half in the making, will be the first mobile browser to support add-ons, a feature that could see it being popular with power users. Like its desktop bigger brother, Fennac supports tabs, and will also feature an Awesome bar address/search bar.

Stay tuned Nokia N900 users!

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology -- whether that be by learning to program, building a PC from a pile of parts, or helping them get the most from their new MP3 player or digital camera.

Adrian has authored/co-authored technical books on a variety of topics, ranging from programming to building and maintaining PCs. His most recent books include "Build the Ultimate Custom PC", "Beginning Programming" and "The PC Doctor's Fix It Yourself Guide". He has also written training manuals that have been used by a number of Fortune 500 companies.

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Honey, you need a new script
Zogg 24th Dec 2009
*Sigh*, if you have any (sensible) suggestions for the Mozilla team then you can post them here:

http://quality.mozilla.org/forums/qmo-qualitymozillaorg/feature-requests

Otherwise, the way you constantly regurgitate the same material just looks like attention-seeking (at best).

And as for:

"But you hold the title as the most vulnerable product of 2009!"

Are you factoring in the number of "days of vulnerability" here, or are you just repeating someone else's headline?
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Another DOA project from Mozilla
markbn 22nd Dec 2009
First Thunderbird 3, now this "me too" browser. Mozilla obviously does not have any idea to where it's going. They should have released a mobile browser years ago (Minimo sucked big time, was feature-packed but CPU- and memory- hungry)
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Shut up.
Sleeper Service 23rd Dec 2009
You have no idea what you're talking about.
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Chill out
markbn 23rd Dec 2009
I know perfectly what I'm talking about. Now, go out and play with your toys.
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Firefox is the most vulnerable and buggy browser
honeymonster 23rd Dec 2009
Mozilla, please fix Firefox for desktop before
throwing resources at a Fennec.

Wishlist (before Fennec):

1) Sandbox Firefox. ASAP! Use Vista/7 low integrity
mode for processes involved in network communication,
parsing and rendering. Use an external helper process
running with "normal" integrity level only for
file marshalling, preference settings, certificate
validation etc.

2) Adopt a security-minded lifecycle. Now. Yes, it may
slow down development-to-market time. But you hold the
title as the most vulnerable product of 2009!
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Honey, you need a new script
Zogg 24th Dec 2009
*Sigh*, if you have any (sensible) suggestions for the Mozilla team then you can post them here:

http://quality.mozilla.org/forums/qmo-qualitymozillaorg/feature-requests

Otherwise, the way you constantly regurgitate the same material just looks like attention-seeking (at best).

And as for:

"But you hold the title as the most vulnerable product of 2009!"

Are you factoring in the number of "days of vulnerability" here, or are you just repeating someone else's headline?
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RE: Firefox for mobile (PDA capable?)
DocTech Updated - 23rd Dec 2009
Any chance that the mobile version of FireFox will run on a PALM T|X? Oh, that would be so nice .... Palm users - like me - are a bit of a die-hard fanatical bunch, and would dearly love to have a faster, more reliant PDA-based browser. I have a couple of browsers for my T|X that kind of work. However, it would be great to have a mobile FireFox for my T|X. BTW, PALM's Blazer sucks!

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