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Fennec Fits Everything You Love About Firefox Into Your Pocket

Source: webmonkey

Oct 29, 2009

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A burning question that’s been tossed around for years — “Why isn’t Firefox on my phone?” — has finally been answered.

Firefox will begin showing up on mobile devices at the end of this year. I got the chance to test a beta version of Firefox on a pre-release mobile device. The browser, code-named Fennec, is the closest thing yet to a real, desktop-class browser for mobiles.

It does almost everything Firefox on the desktop does, and with the speed, stability and support for web standards one would expect from a browser branded with the Firefox name.

Last week, Wired.com received a Nokia N900 for review. The black, brick-style phone has a touchscreen and a physical keyboard. It runs Maemo, Nokia’s operating system based on Debian Linux, and Maemo has its own, dedicated build of Fennec. I installed Fennec for Maemo Beta 4, the latest stable release, and spent a few days surfing with it.

All the features that endear us to Firefox — tabbed browsing, the smart URL bar, easy bookmarking and history management, spellchecker, password manager, an innovative user interfac

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