Fennec: Mobile Browser from Mozilla
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Mon 20th Oct 2008 14:13 UTC, submitted by Michael
Mozilla & Gecko clones Mozilla's latest browser "Fennec", specifically designed for mobile devices has finally been released. Currently, it is only available for the Nokia N810 platform. Support for other platforms is planned for the future. Ars Technica has a review of the new browser. If you are interested in getting involved, but don't have a Nokia N810, you can install it on your desktop (Windows, Linux and OS X) and experiment with it.
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N800 too surely?
by memson on Mon 20th Oct 2008 15:03 UTC
memson
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2006-01-01

The Beta certainly worked on my N800, at any rate..

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RE: N800 too surely?
by HeLfReZ on Mon 20th Oct 2008 15:06 UTC in reply to "N800 too surely?"
HeLfReZ Member since:
2005-08-12

tried it on my N810..in short..blowz chunks. It run from SD with max memory available, and its pretty unusable at the moment. Ran like a drunken tree sloth.

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RE[2]: N800 too surely?
by jack_perry on Mon 20th Oct 2008 15:16 UTC in reply to "RE: N800 too surely?"
jack_perry Member since:
2005-07-06

The original post-Netscape Mozilla browsers also ran like a drunken tree sloth, so there's hope that they'll improve Fennec.

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RE[3]: N800 too surely?
by sbergman27 on Mon 20th Oct 2008 15:19 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: N800 too surely?"
sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

The original post-Netscape Mozilla browsers also ran like a drunken tree sloth, so there's hope that they'll improve Fennec.

Over a period of several years.

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What exactly is this?
by sbergman27 on Mon 20th Oct 2008 15:10 UTC
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2005-07-24

Is this a new name for Minimo? Was there some contest that I missed to find a name even *worse* than Minimo? Considering the sex appeal of "Fennec" and the quality of Minimo... I don't think Opera has much to worry about. And I'm far from being an Opera fan.

Edited 2008-10-20 15:11 UTC

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RE: What exactly is this?
by Michael on Tue 21st Oct 2008 16:33 UTC in reply to "What exactly is this?"
Michael Member since:
2005-07-01

No, this is a completely new product. I believe it's supposed to be closer to the desktop browser in terms of architecture and stuff but I don't really know what that means from a practical standpoint. I expect they'll explain it better when they release it.

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I like it
by ritesh_nair on Mon 20th Oct 2008 15:17 UTC
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2007-03-22

I dont have a nokia to run it on, so i chose my laptop. I have to say it gets a 90/100 in acid 3 what ever that should help me with( compliance or whatever). What i liked about it is the page load times which are really faster than most of the browsers I use. No i don't use lynx obviously. Its nice to run it and a better skin may help me use it better on windows. I wish they write a plugin to change the interface to once sided buttons that fade in and out when u click near the right or top ot which ever corner.

Edited 2008-10-20 15:18 UTC

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Waiting for Symbian release
by Arabian on Tue 21st Oct 2008 18:50 UTC
Arabian
Member since:
2007-01-23

I can't wait for it, to test it in my Nokia E90.

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iPhone version
by bhuot on Wed 22nd Oct 2008 20:19 UTC
bhuot
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2008-09-18

Why isn't there an iPhone version?

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