18039v2 max 450x450 Fennec Pre Alpha is out
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Fennec is Mozilla’s take on the mobile browser market and the pre-alpha is available now. Not for everyone though, only if you have a VGA Windows Mobile phone and even then it’s not 100% gauranteed – and that’s fine by me. Pre-Alpha means that if you try and use it, don’t bitch if it doesn’t work 100%. Nothing irritates me more than a person that slams a product that is not final for being unstable or incomplete. That’s why it’s not stable, it’s being worked on.

Anyway, this is great news. Opera has been the only ready alternative if you are serious about browsing on your mobile and are not using an iPhone and I’m glad to see that progress is being made to get Firefox out there to hopefully dominate in the same way it has changed the desktop browser market.

The focus of development so far has been on building a new user interface that reflects Firefox’s design principles, and adds touch screen support and other features that are appropriate for mobile phones and other handheld devices. We plan to do further alpha releases which focus on performance, including projects like TraceMonkey, speculative parsing, and many Fennec and Gecko optimizations. But in the meantime, we feel it is important to make this early release available to continue to grow the community and gather feedback as early as possible in the development process. [Fennec]

Mozilla also have another interesting project in their labs called Joey

Project Joey is an experiment in allowing you to send the Web content you need most to your mobile phone. With Joey, you can quickly mark content that is important to you on your desktop, and have that content available while using your phone. It allows Firefox to send text clippings, pictures, videos, RSS content, and Live Bookmarks to your phone through the Joey Server. The Joey Server transcodes and keeps all of the content up-to-date

Sounds interesting

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