Remember the Fennec? In case you forgot, Fennec is another name for Firefox Mobile. It won’t be long before the final version of Firefox Mobile arrives. With the release of the first release candidate version, Nokia N900 is the first to get its hands on Firefox Mobile RC1. The RC1 runs on mobile devices running Nokia’s Maemo platform, optimized for the Nokia N900.
We usually think of a mobile version of a software as a stripped-down version of the desktop version. Thankfully, Firefox Mobile is far from that. It is built based on the same browser engine as the desktop version of Firefox 3.6, which means that most of the familiar features are all present in the mobile version. The mobile version even has an Awesome Bar! Hell, this Awesome Bar is even Awesome-er. With Weave-sync, the Awesome Bar will even search the Web history from Firefox on your PC! There may be some privacy issues here, depending on how that feature works.
The Firefox Mobile takes advantage of a mobile device’s touch screen feature by implementing a touch-enabled user interface. Some of the things you can do using the touch screen are: swipe left to view controls (Back, Forward, Addons, Preferences, etc), swipe right to view your open tabs, pan up or to the sides of your controls to make the Awesome bar reappear (the Awesome Bar automatically hides to save screen real estate), and double tap to zoom in and double tap again to zoom back out.
Other notable features include: Addons (Yay!), popup blocker, password manager, clear private data, and even a download manager! There’s also an optional feature called “Location-aware browsing”. With your permission, your mobile device shares your current location with the website that you’re currently browsing, then it will find nearby points of interest for you and return additional data like maps in your area.
Mozilla is also investigating development of the Firefox Mobile for Android. If you’re itching to try out Firefox Mobile, but you don’t have a mobile device capable of running it, don’t fret. You can still test it out on your desktop! Head over to the download page and download a copy that matches your OS. There’s one for Linux, Macs and PCs.
Read [Mozilla Firefox] Via [ZDNet]
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