Mozilla Releases Pre-Alpha Fennec Release for WM
- Filed under: Tech News
- Date: Feb 13,2009
Fennec (AKA Firefox Mobile) had been dated for the first week in February, so Mozilla missed it slightly, but Mozilla dev Brad Lassey confirmed on his blog on Monday that they have released a pre-alpha version of Fennec for Windows Mobile.
Pre-alpha means use it with caution and expect lots of bugs, right? According to his post:
This release is pre-alpha, and intended to get the product into the hands of early adopters in order to get feed back and bug reports. In order to focus our efforts on getting this release out, we have targeted only one device, the HTC Touch Pro. This has a number of user interface implications, including graphics designed for a 300 dpi screen, control layout intended for a vga screen and reliance on a hardware keyboard for text input.
The HTC Touch Pro is available through multiple carriers, including Sprint, Verizon and AT&T. It is pre-alpha, so pay attention to the caveats:
Our focus to this point has been to have a working, usable browser. To get there in a hurry we have punted in a few places, and I’d like to point a couple of them out. First is the update mechanism (both for the browser itself and for extensions). After installing this release, you will not be offered updates automatically, so please stay tuned for follow up releases. Also, we have disabled plug-in support. This is one of our high priority items going forward. Finally, as I mentioned before, there is no soft keyboard support. On an HTC Touch Pro, you’ll have to slide out the keyboard to enter a url.
You can download the cab installer directly to your phone, or you can download it to your PC and use ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center to copy it to your phone.
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