Fennec Beta 1 goes live on Maemo platform

Naming confusion aside, we're just stoked out of our gords right now to see that all of this is progressing along so quickly. Out of nowhere, we're being hit with news that Fennec Beta 1 (that's the mobile flavor of Firefox, by the way) is now live on the Maemo platform. The only tough news is that said platform is just used on Nokia's Internet Tablets, so you'll likely have a tough (read: impossible) time loading this up on S60, Windows Mobile or any other mobile OS. That said, we are told that the first beta includes "greatly increased zooming speed and panning smoothness," and on the feature front, devs have enabled plugins so users can easily watch videos from their favorite sites. Hit the read link for all the nitty-gritty, and for you lucky N810 users, give it a download and report back.

[Via phoneArena]


Fennec Beta 1 walkthrough from Madhava Enros on Vimeo.

[ZSX Posted Mar 22nd 2009 5:55AM]

I'm having troubles with Fennec on my N800 in that the virtual keyboard doesn't seem to work when entering passwords. Other than that, it a great for general web browsing, and I love the UI paradigm.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 12:35PM]

I didn't find Fennec exciting. The Tear Webkit browser is a lot faster.

[RileyFreeman Posted Mar 22nd 2009 3:55PM]

windows mobile version not working yet and they moved to other platforms. amazing

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 6:01PM]

ZSX: The bug for that was found and fixed and will be in Beta 2.
Riley: Fennec was started on Maemo, and it has always been several milestones ahead of Windows Mobile.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 6:05PM]

I have been using the Fennec beta for about five days now and my chief complaint is that I cannot enter passwords into any site that requires passwords which as you can imagine, severely handicaps a browser. This is a major bug that should be resolved long before a beta release. Overall, as expected, it is a major upgrade to the alpha release.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 9:54PM]

get it to work on the first platform ya jerks!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 10:48PM]

They guys need to come up with something BETTER than the rest. Just the SOS.