Mozilla's Firefox Mobile has hit the Alpha 2 stage. It was codenamed Fennec, and is still available for the OS2008 (”Maemo”) software platforms that runs on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablets. In addition, Windows, OS X , and Linux users can also take the browser for a test drive.
Improvements/features of in the 2nd Alpha include:
- Touch screen support;
- Faster panning;
- Faster zooming;
- Improved responsiveness of pages loading;
- New content manipulation hooks for extension authors;
- Look and feel improvements to improve usability;
- Easy navigation to Web content such as bookmarks (including tags);
- Smart URL bar;
- Tabbed browsing with thumbnail images;
- Integrated Web search;
- Easy access to multiple search engines;
- Other phone model generic improvements
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