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Fennec, the codename for the Firefox browser on Android devices has had it

You may have noticed that Mozilla’s Fennec browser for Android phones saw a sudden jump from version 2.x to 4.0. Don’t get too excited, the Mozilla team hasn’t released a huge update to the mobile browser using the same engine as Firefox. No, they made the change to better represent the relation between both their [...]

A bit more than a week ago, we reported that Fennec was heading into the 2.0 version of its alpha stages. While nightly builds of the Android version had been available before, only the Nokia N900 version of the mobile browser had gotten a stable Alpha distribution (yes, I know that makes no sense, but [...]

Fennec for Android development is always moving along, and we’re always right there with the Firefox for Mobile team to follow. The latest says that the latest nightly Fennec builds – while still rough in a few places – is otherwise completely usable. The app is expected to enter 2.0 alpha stages in the coming [...]

Fennec, the mobile version of Mozilla’s Firefox currently in development for Android devices, is chugging along slowly while Firefox 4’s “Tab Candy” feature and Firefox Home for iPhone snag up all of the spotlight, and probably for good reason. Most builds to date of the ambitious mobile browser have been a little buggy to say [...]

Fennec probably isn’t due out for Android for a long while, but that doesn’t mean the folks at Mozilla are just sitting on their hands doing nothing. They’ve released the latest nightly build of Firefox’s mobile offspring yesterday, but their biggest change has to be that multitouch is now functional. The developer who updated us [...]

Last month, Mozilla reported success in getting their most basic – and arguably ugly – version of Firefox ported to Android. The test was to make sure their browser was easily compatible for Android using the NDK, and compatible it was. Now, it’s been tweaked, stripped, and wrapped up into a nice .apk file for [...]

It’s not to say that the stock web browser found on the Nexus One and Motorola DROID aren’t bad, but the two handsets were recently seen running Mozilla’s Fennec mobile browser. Mozilla has been in the web browser game for quite some time and really knows how to make the experience impressive for its users, [...]

One of the developers on the Mozilla Firefox team is a guy named Vladimir Vuki?evi? and he has just made a really interesting post on his blog about Firefox and Android. Basically, they’ve got the FULL FIREFOX browser working on Android and although it has some kinks (which he explains) it seems to be [...]

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