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Mozilla has pushed out another alpha version of Firefox for mobile phones, Fennec, and it's inviting Android, and N900, users to have a shot with the little fox. Fennec is the working title for the mobile version of Firefox, incorporating the irritatingly-named "Awesome Bar" and synchronising in real time with its bigger …

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  1. Martin Lyne

    Can't

    Can't find an Android version. Just Maemo. Amidoinitrite?

    1. Anonymous John

      It's here.

      https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android

  2. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Android will rule

    Since Apple is dying. My kids will grow up and say what's a Macintosh computer?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Joke

      rilly??

      Apple is dying? Gee, Sun should buy them. Or SGI. That'd be sooo cool!!1

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Joke

      dying apple

      Sun should totally buy apple. Or SGI should buy them. That'd be totally the coolest!!1

  3. Tom Maddox Silver badge
    Stop

    In before the Opera fanboys

    Blah blah blah Opera did it first etc.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Flame

    Actual Android link forgotten by all

    http://moff.mozilla.com/latest-alpha/android-r7/fennec.apk

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Flame

    Actual Android link forgotten by all

    http://moff.mozilla.com/latest-alpha/android-r7/fennec.apk

    Update: doesn't work

  6. NX1977
    Alert

    Does my browser look big in this?

    Is it still a 30mb download?

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    here's hoping...

    ... it doesn't have the memory hogging "feature" of its older brother.

  8. Miek
    FAIL

    It's here

    http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/08/27/fennec-alpha-released-for-android-and-nokia-n900/

    Mozilla have provided a nice handy "fennec.install" file that doesn't seem to work with android.

  9. jamesrhamilton
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    Fair play

    It's a fair old idea. I'd use Opera Mini on my iPhone all the time if it'd sync in real time to my netbook browser.

  10. My New Handle
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    Buggy as hell ...

    Its a good preview but does seem a bit buggy in places. Lots of freezes on offer. But all the same, as a functional demo it is worth a look.

    Don't forget to save to SD - its 22.4MB in size! Makes Adobe Flash seem almost sylph-like.

  11. HFoster
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    ARM v5/v6 version

    Didn't play too nicely with my Hero. Crashed trying to load Facebook mobile page and Google standard page.

    I'm sticking with the standard Android browser for now.

  12. apleszko

    Huge space eater...

    I had to uninstall it right away... it consumes more than 30Mb of my HTC Desire app space even after moving it to the SD.

    This app space is a known limitation for Android and specially HTC Desire (providing you haven't rooted your phone), so Mozilla should worry at least a bit about moving most of the files to the SD card. Most won't be willing to spend 30Mb of their app space if their included browser does the job, even if Fennec does it a little better.

  13. Greg J Preece

    N900?

    Errr....why would you want to port a mobile version of Firefox to a phone that already has both Firefox and WebM (Mozilla)?

  14. Greg J Preece

    Doh, not WebM

    That other one. MicroB, that's it.

  15. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    awesome bar

    Another reason to NOT use this browser.

  16. Skydreamer
    Unhappy

    Not too good on Galaxy S yet

    Installs and initially looks okay on the Samsung Galaxy S, but zooming, links, and some necessary (for me) company portal pages don't work. This last one is a pity because the built-in browser also doesn't work on our corporate portal...

    But here's hoping.

  17. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    and why would I use this?

    When I have a perfectly good Opera Mini?

  18. Ben Rosenthal

    excellent

    I really hated Opera Mini

  19. Scott A. Brown

    Dolphin Browser

    I've been using the free version of Dolphin browser for the past few weeks and think it's pretty good. Syncs into Delicious bookmarks which is handy (if you use it) and has the 'awesome bar' (if you must call it that) so you can search, get URLs from history and enter URLs all in one.

    Not as quick to load as the default though.

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