Fennec, Mozilla's little fox

A brief article about the Fennec mobile web browser being developed by Mozilla

Author: Matthew Wittering | Published: 9th May 2008

I am very excited about the Android linux mobile phone platform and the opportunity it would provide to handset owners and content distributors across the European 3G wireless plumbing.

I have previously comment on the viability of Skype as a call provider for your Android phone but what about surfing the internet across your 3G Android handset.

For many years there has been a mobile web browser produced by Opera to rival the default application on your handset. To be honest I am a big Firefox fan and not really tired desktop or mobile versions of Opera. Despite no previous experience in the mobile browser market. I found the arstechnica article about Mozilla's Fennec project.

Fennec a small fox is a mobile version of the Firefox browser running on mobile devices like Android and the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet.

The arstechnica article provides an in-depth analysis of the Fennec browser but as a tech savvy consumer I am more interested in seeing some of my favourite applications that I use regularly being readied for the battle against Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 devices and iPhone version of OS X when the Android phones are released using the T-Mobile network in the United States.

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A brief introduction

Matthew WitteringI am a graduate of Lougborough University where I read Computing and Management BSc (Hons) earning a 2:1 classification.

Currently I am working in the Product Team as a Junior Product Manager at Ask Jeeves UK. Continue