Firefox 4 for mobile goes beta on Android and Maemo
After a healthy alpha (and pre-alpha ) period, Mozilla is taking the mobile version of Firefox 4 to beta on Android and Maemo this week, promising improvements in stability, performance, and functionality. Actually, this represents a shift in branding for Maemo, where Firefox 1.1 has already been gold for some time -- but odds are good you're going to want to upgrade in any event, since this new version nets you the so-called Layers framework that aims to improve scrolling and zooming responsiveness. As you might expect, you get built-in Firefox Sync -- basically making this a superset of Firefox Home -- and support for HTML5.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: beta, entry, firefox, firefox 4 beta, firefox sync, healthy-alpha, improvements, mozilla, n900, Promising, represents, responsiveness, the-so-called
PreFox is the webOS browser Mozilla won’t make (but they will make Firefox Home for Symbian)
Despite its fairly magnificent set of developer tools, webOS still gets the short end of the third-party app stick more often than not for the simple reason that there aren't many devices in the field, relatively speaking -- and considering how late Mozilla is in the mobile browser game, they've got bigger fish to fry. Of course, the code underpinning Firefox is open source, so it comes as little surprise that it's been repackaged into a Pre-friendly form with the aptly-named PreFox.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: code, desktop, engadget, engadget-mobile, entry, firefox, firefoxhome, mozilla, open-source, palm, tools
Mozilla’s Seabird phone concept teaches us how to dream
Look up, peasant, from your soot-stained hands. Drop that shovel into the furrowed ground and gaze upon the magic* that Mozilla has wrought. Concept designer Billy May, working through Mozilla's "Open Web Concept Phone" project, has gathered community feedback and followed up on some rather mundane visions for the mobile future with this little beauty, the Mozilla Seabird.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: billy may, bluetooth, concept, concept-phone, functionality, keyboard, mozilla, mozilla seabird, peasant, phone, projected
Firefox Home for iPhone bows in the App Store
Alright, we know that playing with the Firefox 4 beta has been a full-time job for you Mozilla fanboys and girls out there, but let's try something fresh on for size, shall we? Firefox Home has finally been whisked into the App Store on news that Apple gave it the green light, meaning you can now sync your bookmarks and open tabs between your desktop and your phone. Some of us can go a few minutes without browsing the web in the off chance we're away from our PCs...
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, beta, desktop, fanboys, firefox, firefox-home, firefoxhome, iphone, mozilla, result, Sync, tabs
Firefox 1.1 hits Maemo in final form, featuring Add-ons, Save to PDF and more
Two months after an impressive beta , Mozilla's finalized its first full mobile browser for Maemo -- beating iPhone , Android and most assuredly Windows Mobile versions to the punch. Though it doesn't seem to have gained any new features in the interim, what it does bring to the table is sweet indeed: portrait browsing, auto-updating add-ons and the ability to magically convert webpages to PDF right on your phone. If you have a Nokia N900 or N810, do your device a favor and download it right now; if not, you'll find a handy guide to your burning jealousy at our more coverage link
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: burning, engadget, features, guide, interim, mobile, mozilla, nokia, nokia-n900, web browsers, web-browser, webbrowser, webbrowsers
Mozilla submits Firefox Home to Apple App Store, considers approval a formality (video)
Emboldened by the ( great ) success enjoyed by Opera's Mini in making it onto Apple's hallowed iPhone platform, Mozilla has today submitted its own browser implement to the App Store censors. We already knew Firefox Home -- a weird sort of incomplete browser that syncs your desktop bookmarks, history, and tabs with the iPhone -- was in the works, but now we're finding the team behind it is so confident of its approval that it's already promising a guide on how to set it up once it's approved
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, apps, appstore, desktop, entry, firefox sync, firefox-home, iphone, making-it-onto, mozilla, opera, sessions-over, store, Sync
Firefox Home ‘coming soon’ to iPhone, will sync with desktop browser
Continuous client functionality , you say? Sounds like Mozilla might be just what the doctor ordered. The company has announced that its upcoming Firefox Home app is coming soon to the iPhone
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, apple-iphone, browser, desktop, fire fox home, functionality, iphone browser, mozilla, release, result, technically
Firefox is Coming to Android
Mozilla plans to release Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox, for Nokia's Maemo, Windows Mobile and Android devices in the near future. In an interview with Om Malik, ...
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Other Tags: BlackBerry, browser, enterprise, facebook, firefox, iphone, marketing, microsoft, mobile, mozilla, readwriteweb, security, trends, twitter
Firefox Headed to Android Phones – Mozilla – Lifehacker
Yesterday we heard that an unknown something from Mozilla is headed to iPhones, but Firefox's maker is being a bit more specific about Android : A mobile browser is in the works for the open-source phone.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: health, internet, lifehacker, lifestyle, mobile, mozilla, prevent-google, tutorials, windows
Mozilla Firefox coming to Android – Android and Me
Mozilla has finally confirmed they are bringing the popular web browser to the Android mobile platform.