Firefox Mobile, also known as Fennec, may become available for public download by the end of the year in the form of an alpha release. Early screenshots of Fennec have surfaced at the::unwired.
The screenshots show how Fennec looks like when running on a Windows Mobile Professional touchscreen smartphone. I must say that those screenshots looks pretty good! According to the developers, Fennec managed to score 88/100 on the Acid3 test, which is rather outstanding for a mobile browser.
It will be interesting to see how well it fares against Opera Mini and how it will handle extensions/add-ons. If anyone is wondering why the tiny Firefox is named “Fennec,” a fennec is a small fox.
Via [the::unwired]
Opera Mini's not the competition; that thing's java based. Instead, Opera Mobile is probably closer to the same league.
The 9.5 HTC-specific builds floating around are pretty good, so it'll be interesting to see how far they've come from Minimo 0.2