Posts Tagged ‘Fennec’

Mozilla released Fennec Alpha 2!


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fennec_logo

After a month of their release for Alpha 1, Mozilla is back with its alpha 2. With Opera & Skyfire is almost ready with their paradigmatic shift releases, Fennec seems to have been determined to give them a real fight.

Here are some of the changes that Mozilla has claimed to brought in this new release:
-Improved panning performance
-Newly designed theme
-JavaScript error console is now built in
-Improved add-on support
-Numerous bug fixes
-Improved UI polish

Although we do find some bugs even now which prohibits us from making it our default browser, as the way we have it on our PC. But nevertheless we do expect Mozilla to come out with all those fixes in their next version. Till then check out this!

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Weave – sync tabs from Firefox on PC to Fennec on Windows Mobile


Weave on Fennec

Weave on Fennec


Consider this, you are reading an interesting item on the internet, and half way through the article you have to go out and you are on the train and you wanna continue reading that article but you dont remember the name of the website, of course you can google it but wouldn’t it be better if you could sync the open tabs between your PC and mobile phone. Now Jono from Mozilla Labs is telling us that Weave is bringing that feature on to Fennec.

have a read @ the full description @ Jono’s blog

[ via wmpoweruser.com ]

Fennec Pre-alpha – Firefox on windows Mobile


Fennec

Fennec

Well the wait is finally over and its not 2010, well its still in pre-alpha stage but hey it works on Windows Mobile. Looks like the browser loads just fine, but the browsing may not be going so smoothly. So are you ready to give it a go ? Back up your phone (as this is a pre-alpha release, just to be on the safe side) only supports HTC Touch Pro for now.

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[ Leaked ] Fennec Cab – FAIL !!!


Fennec

Fennec


Most of the windows mobile users were having high hopes for the Firefox version of Windows Mobile ( Fennec ), but David K from fuzemobility.com had a go @ the leaked version and is not at all impressed. Some of the cons he pointed out are listed below :

  • Lacks stability
  • 23MB Install
  • Installs into the Games folder
  • The keyboard does not automatically pop-up
  • And the default is to load the mobile version of the website (not the full version)

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