Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers
Firefox for Mobile Beta now available... if you own a Nokia N810 or N900
It might be buggy, it might be slow, but the Fennec web browser has finally been branded a Mozilla product and dubbed the 'Firefox for Mobile Beta 5'. If you want to see a picture of it up and running on a mobile handset, head on over to the NokiaExperts website.
Here's a quick run-down of the features and neat bits:
- AWESOMEBAR -- I had no idea it was actually called this. It's the searching-url-navigation-bar thing. I wonder how slow it searches through my web history, compared to the sluggish performance on my laptop...
- Security -- password manager, pop-up blocker, automatic updates -- all there!
- Add-ons -- you can find and install add-ons straight to the device (though I have no idea what kind of add-on compatibility there is...)
- Device geolocation -- it seems there's a JavaScript API call that lets developers/web sites geolocate the handset? Cool.
- Neat swiping stuff -- swipe left and right to expose and hide navigation and tabs.
[via NokiaExperts]
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Cam said 11:05AM on 11-10-2009
Good luck getting it on the iPhone. Can you say duplicate functionality?
Would love to see this on Android, though.
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Oskiee said 11:08AM on 11-10-2009
:O( What about android?
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Karlo said 11:15AM on 11-10-2009
The thing I have lying here is a N900. Guess you mean that one. ;)
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Sebastian Anthony said 11:16AM on 11-10-2009
I added an extra zero to make it sound cooler!
Jon said 11:25AM on 11-10-2009
Blackberry? iPhone? Ahem! Android here. The browser on my Droid Eris is pretty good, but I'd love to see what an Android version of Firefox would look like.
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Sebastian Anthony said 11:26AM on 11-10-2009
Ah yes... 100,000 DROID owners are now potential readers of DLS...!
I guess we better start including Android when we list various phones, eh? :)
Rawker said 12:50PM on 11-10-2009
"Awesome! Now when do we see it on a device with larger-than-miniscule user base?"
you do realize the symbian phones make up 50% of the smart phone market, thats more than iphone and blackberry combined.
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Sebastian Anthony said 12:55PM on 11-10-2009
These two new Nokias don't use a Symbian OS. They use 'Maemo Linux', whatever that is.
Rawker said 1:03PM on 11-10-2009
i am corrected...
Roman Taycher said 4:19PM on 11-10-2009
N800 isn't that new(and not a phone). They both run Maemo Linux, which is Linux, it uses mostly the same technology as desktop Linux (with a few changes and stuff on top plus some proprietary Nokia applications)basically sort of like desktop Linux (especially Debian/Ubuntu) is to maemo as OS x is to iphone OS.
Also I believe symbian is an eventual target although the order of development goes maemo->windows mobile->others(symbian, possibly android) and hasn't gotten an alpha yet.
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