Mobile Firefox Alpha 1 Released 148
An anonymous reader writes "Today Mozilla released development builds of its next mobile browser, Fennec 1.0 Alpha 1. 'The last eight milestones were building up to getting a stable browser with an easy to use interface. We really want to get Fennec in front of as many people as possible and get feedback.' To that end, Fennec has been made available for the desktop on Windows, Mac and Linux."
Re:I'm impressed (Score:5, Interesting)
Mobile browser for desktop OS?! (Score:2, Interesting)
More Standard compliant? (Score:5, Interesting)
Posting from Fennec in Windows (Score:5, Interesting)
So far it seems pretty interesting, although there's definitely bugs (eg. my text disappears when I'm not typing a character), but hey it's an alpha. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes, although the interface is not geared towards Windows Mobile Smartphone, it seems to be best suited for a touchscreen at the moment.
On a side note, I didn't see any interface to specify a proxy, but I was able to set one through about:config. I have to go through an auto proxy so I just set the autoconfig_url to the URL of my proxy and the network.proxy.type to 2.
Re:I'm impressed (Score:1, Interesting)
The little shits are very fast and quiet when moving. I have one in my house that belongs to my girlfriend. I don't play with her much because she is too aggressive with me but she plays fairly nice with my girlfriend. Because of her very sharp teeth and her tendency to communicate with me using her mouth, I nicknamed her "the piranha". FYI, the fennec fox is the only fox the may be legally kept as a pet in the US.
This is really very interesting. (Score:3, Interesting)
The minimal UI would be perfect not just for mobile phones, but for other small-screen devices (I'd use it on my eee, for instance). This is obviously not the core market for Fennec, but I'd love to see an extension which added back just a few "desktop/laptop" conveniences:
Again, I'm not necessarily saying these should be folded into the core Fennec distro; "full" computers aren't its main market. But an extension would be nice.