Mobile/Fennec
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About the Fennec (Mobile Firefox) Project
"Fennec" is the code name for the mobile version of Firefox. To download, use, and learn about mobile Firefox, see:
- Mobile Firefox home page - Download Firefox for Android and Nokia N900
- Firefox Help for Mobile - for questions and problems with mobile Firefox
- Mozilla Mobile wiki - news and information about Mozilla mobile development
Still have questions? See our FAQ for Mobile. If you're interested in what we'll be working on over the next 6 months or so, please see Mobile/Planning.
Supported Platforms
Mozilla is developing Firefox for Google Android.
Mozilla supported Nokia Maemo up to Firefox 7. Official support was dropped for Maemo after Firefox 7. See Mobile/Platforms for more details.
Features
Firefox for mobile is packed with your favorite features, including:
- Awesome Bar – Go to your favorite sites in just a couple of keystrokes with intelligent and personalized searching
- Firefox Sync – Sync your Firefox tabs, history, bookmarks and passwords between your desktop and mobile device for a seamless browsing experience
- Add-ons – Customize your Firefox by adding small pieces of functionality, like games and news readers, that help make the mobile Web browser your own
- Location-Aware Browsing – Get maps and information relevant to your location
- Tabbed browsing – View open tabs as thumbnails to easily identify and select the Web page you’d like to go to next
- Safe Browsing – Get an Instant Web Site ID and easily access and edit security settings
- Available in more than 30 languages and counting
See the complete list of Mobile Features.
Project and Design Documents
- Fennec vision statement
- Fennec user experience
- Building extensions for Fennec
- Architecture overview of the front-end UI
- Research Questions for Fennec
- Fennec 2.0 planning
Performance
Performance, memory consumption and on-device footprint are crucial to both embedders and Fennec.
Building and Running Fennec
- Ports, build instructions, platform support
- Download official builds for mobile and desktop platforms
- Miscellaneous tips and tricks
- Debugging
Testing Fennec
- How to write Fennec tests
- Mobile QA Home
- /Cheat Codes for developers and testers
- Fennec 1.0 Test Plan
- Unit Test Automation (mochitest, chrome, reftest, crashtest, xpcshell)
- Running Mochitests on Fennec for Nokia
- Maemo 4 Test Farm Notes
- Interesting web pages to test
Test Builds
Bugs