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Fennec - Firefox Browser for Phones |
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Fennec is the code name of the effort to build a mobile version of Firefox. This fox aims at supporting Windows Mobile and Linux devices, although support for other platforms will probably be added as well in the future. Fennec is a new project at Mozilla.org, the software is still in alpha stage.
Mozilla.org lists the following overall goals for Mobile Firefox:
- provide Mozilla's standards-based open-source browser engine, optimized for mobile, that can be embedded by device manufacturers and others;
- a full-featured mobile browser including support for XUL-based add-ons, delivering on Firefox's key principles of ease-of-use, security and accessibility;
- grow the Mozilla community in the mobile space;
- provide tools and documentation to help developers develop, debug and deploy web applications;
- do all of this work in the shared Mozilla source repositories so all platforms, desktop and mobile, benefit each other
And at the current date the Fennec feature list is as follows:
- UI modes
- full screen
- portrait/landscape
- mouse pointer for non-touch screen devices
- zoom
- zoom to relevant section
- zoom to width
- zoom to height
- zoom to fit page
- scrolling/panning
- kinetic
- normal (through keys)
- accelerated
- security (e.g. how does the user know the site is secure?)
- tabbed browsing
- spatial navigation
- layout
- ssr (single column display)
- fit to width
- fit to height
- scrollbar-free layout
- viewport meta tag
- breakpad for ARM
- installers for Linux (Debian?), Windows Mobile
- virtual keyboard
- text input
- password/input manager + native integration
- low memory handlers
- start page
- basic navigation/UI design
- localization
- fonts?
- text layout (harfbuzz)
- send page/URL
- device integration through Javascript
- determine build profile (simple, basic) and what needs to be removed/added
- wow-factor
I'm curious if and when Fennec will get noticed in the browser world of mobile devices. Time will tell.
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