Archive for October 19, 2008

Give Fennec a spin

While it’s not actu­ally avail­able for Win­dows Mobile yet, you can down­load an emu­la­tor of Fen­nec, the new Fire­fox Mobile (a fen­nec is a small desert fox) and try it out on your desk­top. I’ve played around with it a bit and I’m really, really impressed. If this runs at rea­son­able speed on a Win­dows Mobile phone, it’s going to make peo­ple for­get all about Opera Mobile, Iris and Sky­fire, not to men­tion the Inter­net Explorer 6 that we’re not likely to get with­out buy­ing new devices.

Fen­nec M9 (user expe­ri­ence alpha) for Maemo release notes

Easy nav­i­ga­tion to Web content:

* Book­marks, includ­ing tags
* Smart URL bar (“awe­some bar”)
* Tabbed brows­ing with thumb­nail images
* Inte­grated Web search — built into the URL bar
* Easy access to mul­ti­ple search engines

Web con­tent:

* Max­i­mize con­tent by auto-​hiding con­trols and URL bar
* Zoom in and out

Secu­rity:

* Instant Web site ID (“Larry”)
* Pass­word man­ager
* Popup blocker
* Clear pri­vate data

Devices ser­vices integration:

* Click on a phone num­ber to ini­ti­ate a call
* JavaScript API to get device loca­tion
* Popup blocker
* Clear pri­vate data

Also:

* Search­able down­load man­ager
* Pref­er­ences pane

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