Fennec/NativeUI

Features

• Awesome Bar – Go to your favorite sites in just a couple of keystrokes with intelligent and personalized searching
• Firefox Sync – Sync your Firefox tabs, history, bookmarks and passwords between your desktop and mobile device for a seamless browsing experience
• Tabbed browsing – View open tabs as thumbnails to easily identify and select the Web page you’d like to go to next

• Fast - Instantly startup (<300ms)
• Small - Low memory usage (consistent with other browsers)
• Energy - Doesn't eat your battery

Background

• http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2011/11/firefox-for-android-nightly-channel-switches-to-native-ui-builds/
• http://madhava.com/egotism/archive/005058.html
• http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/-mozilla-is-working-on.ars

Nightly Builds

If you want to try the new NativeUI on your Android device, you can download the latest nightly builds here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android#Download_Nightly

What's in them? See here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/NightlyFeatures

How To Build

The project repository is here: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central

Follow the instructions from Mobile/Fennec/Android.

Architecture Overview

Get a bird's eye view of how the native UI version of Fennec is structured. There are also some examples of messaging between Java and XUL/JS.

Design

The UI design is under revision, to make it simpler and to make more use of standard Android controls (i.e. hardware/system menu button, back button) and to make sure that more touchevents can be passed directly to web content.

Overview and detail here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/UserExperience

QA

• Contact: Kevin Brosnan (kbrosnan)
• Bugs: Fennec native UI testing
• Notes: Fennec native UI notes

Weekly Showcase

• Wednesdays @ 12:00 PDT/Warp Core
• Notes 10-26
• 11-9
• 11-16
• 11-23
• 11-30