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A first look at Mobile Firefox
Mozilla has just revealed a first look at its new Mobile Firefox interface. Actually, Mozilla has designed two UI's: one for touch screen devices, like most PDA's, smart phones (and the iPhone, of course), and one for non-touch devices, like most cell phones. The Firefox mobile browser takes some hints from Apple's own mobile Safari browser, with the main Firefox screen reproducing some familiar buttons: back and forward navigation arrows, a bookmarks button, a retractable address bar.
The mobile Firefox UI does include a few new buttons/features: the zoom in and zoom out buttons reside on the bottom toolbar (though we're not sure why they don't use the touch screen itself for zooming in and out). The tabs button gives users a different look than in Safari mobile: when pressed, it displays up to four tab previews on the same screen for quick tab switching.
Firefox mobile browser will likely be integrated with Places (Firefox's new bookmark-like scheme) and the newly introduced Weave.
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James said 4:02PM on 1-25-2008
Uhh, I have the suspicion they'll want to talk to the owner of MobileFirefox.com, which appears to be hosting a Mobile Apps-style version (runs from a thumb drive, etc), not a Mobile Phone-style version.
Also, GIMME GIMME GIMME! I need a decent browser for my wife's HTC Hermes.
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Tush said 4:08PM on 1-25-2008
Yeah, I'm excited for this. Pocket IE sucks and Opera costs money. Minimo was a good effort, but it is too buggy to use effectively.
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AlexL said 11:45PM on 1-25-2008
How do you use the touchscreen for zooming in/zooming out without multitouch?
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Dave said 12:00PM on 1-27-2008
Microsoft's new brower uses zoom without multitouch.
You just double tap to zoom in.
Damian said 12:47PM on 1-27-2008
By the looks of it, the idea will be just essentially just having a mobile based interface for Gecko 1.9. So it should have almost the same functionality as Firefox 3 does, and a lot of Firefox 3 features make a lot of sense in the mobile space, would save time on browsing and stuff e.g awesomebar.
As for those concept designs, I think the actual product when it comes to fruition will look a lot better. What I'm interested in, is will Mozilla 2 (which I assume they'll call the rendering engine Gecko 2.0 and its Firefox counterpart will called be Firefox 4) be designed from the ground up to have a mobile version as they are describing here?
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