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Mozilla is one step closer to getting its
Firefox browser surfing on Android phones, and on the Nokia N900. On Friday the company issued an alpha version of Fennec, the code name for every instance of “Firefox Mobile” that’s still in development stages.
Features-wise, Fennec alpha is very similar to the Fennec prealpha we got a peek [...]

MeeGo, a Linux Foundation effort to provide a mobile version of Linux, moves on Wednesday to “Day 1″ of the MeeGo Handset User Experience project, with developers able to access handset baseline source code and leverage touch capabilities, MeeGo representatives said.
The code is primarily intended for platform developers, handset vendors, and operators. Accessible at MeeGo’s [...]

What do you get when you take a bunch of
mobile browser developers and give them free run of the lab? A preview build of Opera’s Mobile 10 browser running on the Nokia N900 and N800/N810 Internet Tablet.
Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia’s open-source Maemo platform sprang to life as a hobbyist’s thrill in the Opera Labs [...]

Just to get it out of the way, Mozilla had no official news to share at CTIA 2010 in Las Vegas. That didn’t stop us from catching up with Jay Sullivan, Mozilla’s vice president of mobile, to lay a finger on the pulse of Firefox’s browser for mobile phones. (After all, why should Opera have [...]

In week since Mozilla released the first Firefox browser for mobile phones, we’ve had a better chance to explore the Web on the Nokia N900. Firefox for Maemo, as it’s called, is also available for the N810 Internet Tablet.
We go over some of our observations in the First Look video here, pointing out that [...]

The mobile version of the Firefox browser is now available to owners of the Nokia N900 smartphone, after several months of beta tests. Mozilla is also working on versions for smartphones running Windows Mobile and Google Android.
Features of the mobile version of Firefox include tabbed browsing and what Mozilla calls Weave Sync, which synchronizes a [...]

It’s been a long slog getting Firefox Mobile off the ground, but on Wednesday, Mozilla announced a third release candidate for its mobile browser. (Our First Look video gives an overview of RC2, the previous version.) Once code-named Fennec, Firefox 1.0 for Nokia’s Maemo platform is achingly close.
Or is it? Firefox for Maemo 1.0 RC3 [...]

Remember Linja Zax? Probably not, but the technology, which emerged around this time last year as a gesture-based alternative to multitouch can now be found on Nokia’s N900 browser. It can also be found within the specifications of Mozilla’s mobile Fennec browser, although it has not yet been implemented.
Linja Zax’s latest trick is to [...]

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The way development is going at Mozilla, it won’t be long before we see the first full release of
Firefox for a mobile device. Actually, two releases. Mozilla is making its browser’s first mobile entrant Nokia’s N900 and N810 Internet Tablet, both running on the Linux-based Maemo operating system.
This First [...]

Mozilla has finished its second release candidate for its first mobile
Firefox browser. Firefox 1.0 for Nokia’s open-source Maemo platform can’t be far behind.
In addition to fixing “a major performance issue” plaguing the Nokia N900, Mozilla has also updated the latest version of the Gecko layout engine. By using the same version of Gecko that’s driving [...]