Mozilla: Fennec Mobile 1.0 for Maemo

Mozilla has released Fennec 1.0, the mobile version of one of the most popular browsers of the moment. Here are all the technical features and innovations integrated.

After the three preliminary versions Release Candidate, on the night between Friday and Saturday, Mozilla has released the final version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. Based on the same rendering engine as Firefox 3.6, Fennec 1.0 is for the time reserved for the Maemo platform. Only owners of Nokia N810 and N900 will then test the new browser and surf the Web with the newest member of the Mozilla Foundation.

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As for features, Firefox Fennec has a tabbed browsing, an address bar “smart” that allows you to find pages in your Favorites or History by simply entering keywords in the string, but also a mechanism to stop advertising windows ( commonly known as pop-up) and a download manager. Are integrated, in addition, a control system for passwords, and a spelling checker.
Directed to devices mobile Fennec 1.0 has an interface designed for use on touchscreen. Like his older brother, Firefox Mobile Fennec 1.0 can count on the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, and can be enhanced with extensions (about 40 today, including the synchronization tool weave) and will support HTML5 and SVG. The next step for Mozilla, Firefox Mobile will be to adapt to other platforms, as well Maemo environment.

Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, indicates that development work is well underway for Windows Mobile, so that the alpha 3 version is available. For Android, development should begin in a few days, while it is not yet planned anything for Symbian. The browser is also incompatible with Blackberry while on iPhone is Apple’s responsibility to intervene. “