fennec

According to CNET, Mozilla is planning to deliver its mobile Firefox (aka Fennec) browser to the Android OS. About a year ago Mozilla said that Java was too limited in terms of functionality, so they refused to use it, but since Google has recently announced the Android NDK (Native Development Kit) v1.0, which should enable developers to write programs running in the operating system’s Linux-based layer, they should have no problem compiling an Android version of the Fennec.

If you own an HTC Touch Pro, click here to donload the official pre-alpha version of the Mozilla Fennec browser for your handset.

WMExperts are reporting that the Firefox Mobile browser, codenamed Fennec, could become availailable for testing on the HTC Touch Pro. The device runs Windows Mobile, and all the browsers released for this platform turned out to be superior to the default Internet Explorer.

We'll see whether Fennec will be a good competitor to Safari or Opera.

It looks like the Mozilla Fennec browser has been ported to the Windows Mobile platform. Gnubeashie, the open source whiz, has managed to build the browser using its early source code, and has published a video of it running in the Windows Mobile 6.1 emulator. And running pretty fast, I must say. The UI is very nice and looks to be more functional than that in the official Alpha.

Mozilla has released the second alpha of its Fennec mobile browser. They have slightly improved performance in panning, zooming and usability, and have also added “new content manipulation hooks for extension authors”. Hopefully they'll also add support for plugins. Unfortunately, the Alpha 2 is only available for the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, for now.

Several screenshots of the forthcoming Firefox Fennec mobile browser have appeared recently on Mozilla blog. These screens were taken with Fennec running in Windows Mobile interface, and we don't know yet whether any other versions for oher systems will be compiled anytime soon.

The first alpha build of the application will be available in a couple of weeks.