The first beta of Mozilla’s mobile focused browser was recently released, and provided that it runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, I thought I’d give it a try on my Sony Vaio UX180 [Portal page]. I flipped the unit into portrait mode and recorded a quick demo of the action. I’m pretty impressed so far and I like the interface. They still have some work to do and it will be really interesting to see how good of a web experience you can have on a Linux powered device (like the N810 [Portal page]) with lots of familiar Firefox addons running in conjunction with Fennec. Check out the video below:
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Mobile Firefox (Fennec Beta 1) demo [video]
Posted on 19 March 2009 by Ben
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March 19th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Mobile Firefox (Fennec Beta 1) video demo http://tinyurl.com/csfzqn
March 19th, 2009 at 3:57 am
Look’s wonderful!
But how to install it on the UX? I downloaded the BETA version for windows but it does’t work.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0b1/releasenotes/#new
Ben Reply:
March 19th, 2009 at 4:38 am
I just downloaded it, unzipped, and ran it right out of the unzipped folder.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:08 am
It doesn’t show youtube’s video ,only sound ..
Ben Reply:
March 19th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Seems to be working for me.
JP Reply:
March 19th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Works for me, too.
March 19th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
The release notes on the page you linked to say Flash only works on the N810, not on the desktop builds. So I’m guessing that’s what you’re seeing.
Ben Reply:
March 19th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Thanks Jason, didn’t catch that one.
March 21st, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Testing on the n810 right now. Obviously you cant magic-up a dose of cppu power on the n810 so its not running anything near what would be regarded as smoothly but there is hope here.
Im using a couple of plugins and enjoying the UI. Will do some testing with javascript pages to see if there are any speed advantages.