Mobile/Fennec

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About the Fennec Project

"Fennec" is the code name of the effort to build a mobile version of Firefox. Fennec is half of the Mozilla mobile effort to enable mobile phones with Mozilla software - for the other half, see Embedding.

Here are some key project pages:

Still have questions? See our FAQ for Mobile. If you're interested in what we'll be working on over the next 6 months or so, please see the project planning pages.

For general news and inforation about Mozilla's mobile development team, see the Mozilla Mobile page.

Supported Platforms

Firefox is available for the Nokia Maemo platform on the Nokia N900. Get Firefox for Maemo here.

We’re starting development of Firefox for the Google Android platform. Try out a pre-alpha preview of Firefox for Android.

Earlier versions of Fennec were released for Windows Mobile 6, but we are no longer developing for Windows Mobile. There is also an unofficial port for Palm webOS started by Dave Townsend.

We will continue to investigate and consider other platforms that can support the full Firefox experience. For more information see Mobile/Platforms.

Features

Firefox for mobile is packed with your favorite features, including:

  • Awesome Bar – Go to your favorite sites in just a couple of keystrokes with intelligent and personalized searching
  • Weave Sync – Sync your Firefox tabs, history, bookmarks and passwords between your desktop and mobile device for a seamless browsing experience
  • Add-ons – Customize your Firefox by adding small pieces of functionality, like games and news readers, that help make the mobile Web browser your own
  • Location-Aware Browsing – Get maps and information relevant to your location
  • Tabbed browsing – View open tabs as thumbnails to easily identify and select the Web page you’d like to go to next
  • Safe Browsing – Get an Instant Web Site ID and easily access and edit security settings
  • Available in more than 30 languages and counting

See the complete list of Mobile Features.

Proposed Device + Location APIs

Technical Details, Documents, & Designs

Performance

Performance, memory consumption and on-device footprint are crucial to both embedders and Fennec.

Current blocking 1.9+ performance issues

Building/Running Fennec

Testing Fennec

Our first test page, post interesting urls here.

Test Builds

Bugs