I’m a big fan of Weave, Mozilla’s sync technology and i”m interested in Firefox too. Putting the two together in a mobile device is just mobile web heaven!
Mozilla are here at the Maemo summit and are presenting information on Fennec, the weave, plugin and awesome bar-enabled mobile browser. Click the images for larger versions.
The awesome bar helps reduce typing once it’s populated with history and search results. Weave adds instant-history to that.
Pull-in side-bars keep screen space used for the web page.
tabbed browsing and memory management along with image icons help use multiple pages simultaneously.
One of the biggest features of Firefox – add-ons. Add-ons will be supported and Mozilla are working on improved memory management and security in this area.
Weave. Ties together configuration and history from desktop and mobile PCs
Beta 4 is out already (and will be in the Maemo ‘Extras’ area on the N900 very soon.
Full version will be available before the end of the year for Maemo 5.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
New article: Update on Fennec from the Maemo Summit http://cli.gs/PjGVY
October 9th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
RT @chippy: New article: Update on Fennec from the Maemo Summit http://cli.gs/PjGVY
October 9th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
“Beta 4 is out already (and will be in the Maemo ‘Extras’ area on the N900 very soon.
Full version will be available before the end of the year for Maemo 5.”
What about the n810? It’s very unclear at this point to me if maemo 5 will be coming out for the n810 or if the platform is just going to be abandoned and left with the old OS.
Patrick Reply:
October 9th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Maemo 5 will not be backward compatible. You should check Maemo Mer fork.
October 10th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Because of the HW Maemo 5 won’t be coming to N810 or N800, but like Patrick said look at Mer.
I believe Fennec beta works with N810.
October 11th, 2009 at 4:28 am
hehe~~~ It’s cool.
October 15th, 2009 at 2:37 am
Yes, Fennec works fine on the N810