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Meet Fennec, Mozilla’s Firefox Mobile Browser – RIP Skyfire?

by John Jorgensen on October 20, 2008

  • Mozilla has released a free alpha build (Mac, Linux & Windows) of Fennec, their Firefox-for-mobile web browser.
  • Supports touch-screen commands such as swiping left and right to pull up menus and browser tabs in the sidebar.
  • Features Firefox 3’s “AwesomeBar,” the URL bar that presents a drop down menu based on the first letters you type that displays links to matching bookmarks and past visited sites.
  • Bookmarking supports folders and tags.
  • Plugins are supported as well as extensions, the user-mod feature that has made Firefox so popular.
  • Go here for screenshots and a video walkthru on a Nokia N810.

I’d love to be a fly on the wall in Skyfire’s office today.

Lifehacker

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The Sky Was The Limit For Skyfire. Then Came Smartphones

by glu on September 24, 2008

  • Skyfire, the AJAX & Flash-capable mobile web browser wunderkind has matured a great deal from its early Alpha versions on Windows Mobile.
  • Now supporting WinMo 5&6 and Symbian s60 3rd edition handsets, Skyfire has a larger market to work with but does that market want to work with Skyfire?
  • Skyfire faces rapidly increasing competition from tools that convert the “full web” to the “mobile web” in a tidy fashion and from smartphones with growing capabilities.
  • SkyFire now open to the public.

Assuming low, mid-range handsets are not capable of supporting the processing demands of Skyfire, are there enough smartphone users looking for rich web content shrunk to their mobile?

A tiny exclusive.

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Skyfire Beta Codes For tinyCrunch Readers

by glu on September 22, 2008

  • Hot on the heels of our Skyfire article last week, the Skyfire team asked us to release some beta invites to the tinyCrunch loyals.
  • Email us at Editor(AT)tinycrunch.com for the code. First to come, get served.

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