According to a post on Mozilla developer Vladimir Vukicevic’s blog, a bug-testing, kind-of-early, might-be-broken-so-don’t-complain version of Firefox Mobile, codenamed Fennec, has today gone live for people with Android 2.0 and above phones to have a fiddle around with.
Direct download links and everything you need to know are up Vlad’s blog, if you have the required Android 2.0 or higher phone. It’s not on the Android Market, it’s a self-install APK job. Here’s the only image released so far:
You can read early user feedback up on the app’s Google Group – seems to be working on the HTC Desire, and confusing HTC Hero owners who haven’t read the announcement properly. And here’s the developer’s warning of what to expect, should you manage to get it going…
- We’ve only really tested this on the Motorola Droid and the Nexus One.
- It will likely not eat your phone, but bugs might cause your phone to stop responding, requiring a reboot.
- Memory usage of this build isn’t great — in many ways it’s a debug build, and we haven’t really done a lot of optimization yet. This could cause some problems with large pages, especially on low memory devices like the Droid.
- You’ll see the app exit and relaunch on first start, as well as on add-on installs; this is a quirk of our install process, and we’re working to get rid of it.
- You can’t open links from other apps using Fennec; we should have this for the next build.
- This build requires Android 2.0 or above, and likely an OpenGL ES 2.0 capable device.
- Edit: This build must be installed to internal memory, not to a SD card.
Link via Engadget.
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Mark
/ April 28, 2010…or you can use use Opera Mini that just works, is faster and does not eat up all your memory…
PK
/ April 28, 2010To me the fact that you have to scroll website you are browsing in order to access browser controls is some fundamental usability flaw. It just makes no sense and probably that’s why no other browser I have seen does that. Shame because Firefox mobile will surely have a good integration with desktop version (history, bookmarks etc.).