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Category: N800

Fennec Alpha 1

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 [...]

fennec on the big screen

This image was taken from the overhead projector during Jay’s morning talk about mobile.

flashblock port to MicroB

Pretty neat to see someone ported over flashblock to run on MicroB on the N810. I haven’t looked at the code to see how they do it, but I’ll bet it was a rough ride since that’s written in C and C++, not in XUL. (I also assume that Antonio did this work?)

As [...]

whatwg video support for your phone

Above is a video that I took of Chris Double’s awesome whatwg video work running on my N810. Note that I didn’t have to do anything special to get this to work. I took the two patches, applied them to my trunk mozilla build and ran them through the ARM toolchain. The [...]

mozilla mobile performance

For the Firefox 3 release cycle, we’ve done a huge amount of work on various parts of the browser. Memory usage has been reduced, performance has been vastly increased and we’ve done a huge amount of work on building features that our users will love. Each of these add up to a really [...]

new xulrunner builds for maemo

Brad has posted builds of xulrunner built for Maemo. He also includes some links to some XUL apps you can try. He also includes links to some of the browser test UIs that we’ve been experimenting with, including a full pan/touch/zoom interface browser. (Look for the Touchscreen-atotic link. It’s pretty damn [...]