Those following the development of Mozilla Fennec should be excited to know that Mozilla released the second alpha of their Fennec Mobile Browser. Based on Firefox’s design principles, the new mobile browser for Windows Mobile 6 devices features touch screen optimizations and the “awesome bar” aka Smart URL Bar. Fennec Alpha 2 highlights include:
- Improved panning performance
- Newly designed theme
- JavaScript error console is now built in
- Improved add-on support
- Numerous bug fixes
- Improved UI polish
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Mozilla’s mobile browser, aka Fennec, is now available to all Windows Mobile 6 devices. This version improves stability, performance, integration, reduces memory usage, and works better on smaller screens. Sounds like it’s worth a try but expect a few bugs since it’s still an alpha 1 release. Download here.
Other features include:
- New Add-Ons Manager
- New Downloads Manager
- New CSS based theme
- TraceMonkey, Mozilla’s new JavaScript engine
- jemalloc, the memory management library used by Mozillla.
- Faster application start-up time
- Faster panning
- Faster zooming
- Initial implementation of bookmark folders and bookmark editing
[via Unwiredview.com]
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