Fennec Alpha 1

October 17, 2008 in Beta, Design, Fennec, Firefox, Mobile, Mozilla, N800, N810 | 4 comments

Fennec, which is the code name we’re using for the lead-up to a mobile version of Firefox, has reached an important milestone: Alpha 1.  Mark has details up on his blog, including some good feeedback from people trying it out.

We’ve got builds for the Maemo platform.  We also have builds for Linux Desktop, Mac and Windows so that extensions authors can start hacking as well. See Mark’s blog for some download links.

Congrats to the team for reaching this milestone.  It’s a great start.  Next up: on to lots of polish, finish and performance work. And Windows Mobile.

Madhava was nice enough to do a video that shows Fennec on-device.


Fennec Alpha Walkthrough from Madhava Enros on Vimeo.

  1. Koen Kooi’s avatar

    Koen Kooi on October 17, 2008 at 10:15 am

    Fennec packages optimized for various ARM architectures: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=fennec

  2. Hub’s avatar

    Hub on October 17, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    Too bad one can’t view the video with free software…..

  3. Christopher Blizzard’s avatar

    Christopher Blizzard on October 17, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    Indeed, that does make me sad – but we’re working on it!