New Fennec Releases
Welcome to the world both Fennec 1.0 Beta 2 for Maemo and Fennec 1.0 Alpha 2 for Windows Mobile.
In addition to Maemo and Windows Mobile builds, you can also download desktop builds for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
For these releases we have worked on improving the user experience, replacing our old theme with a much nicer looking one and fixing numerous usability issues. We’ve continued to increase performance and responsiveness. We’ve revamped how you install Add-ons, improved our download manager and the whole look of the application. We’ve started work on making forms on web pages easier to use, providing a nicer combo box UI than before.
Both of these builds are built on top of the same front end and back end codebases — their version differences are just to express their currently different usability levels.
We’re starting to see some very exciting Fennec Add-ons being built by the community, including things like GeoGuide which uses the new Location Aware APIs to show you things like maps and weather near where you currently are, and other things like GraffiTwit, a Twitter client that lets you not only write tweets but also post images you’ve drawn.
We’ll continue to polish the user experience and improve performance, and are already hard at work on some changes that will make big performance improvements.
June 26, 2009 at 6:24 pm
[...] Mozilla’s mobile team technical lead, highlights some of the exciting new features in his blog post, excerpted below: For these releases we have worked on improving the user experience, replacing our [...]
June 26, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Great to see Fennec coming up! Any hint on when could we expect a Symbian develpoment release?
June 26, 2009 at 8:59 pm
thanks for the update and Congratulations on these milestones
June 26, 2009 at 9:01 pm
[...] noted in Stuart Parmenter’s blos post, these new releases feature a new theme that improves usability, better performance and [...]
June 26, 2009 at 9:03 pm
[...] Mozilla’s mobile team technical lead, highlights some of the exciting new features in his blog post, excerpted below: For these releases we have worked on improving the user experience, replacing our [...]
June 27, 2009 at 4:12 am
I just wanted to second Percy’s question of do you know roughly when you expect to ship a Symbian development release?
Will Feature Pack 1 be supported, I heard that the base would be Feature Pack 2 but the amount of FP1 devices far outweighs FP2 devices currently.
Thanks.