Fennec/NativeUI
Features
- 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
- Tabbed browsing – View open tabs as thumbnails to easily identify and select the Web page you’d like to go to next
- Fast - Instantly startup (<300ms)
- Small - Low memory usage (consistent with other browsers)
- Energy - Doesn't eat your battery
Background
- http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2011/11/firefox-for-android-nightly-channel-switches-to-native-ui-builds/
- http://madhava.com/egotism/archive/005058.html
- http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/-mozilla-is-working-on.ars
Nightly Builds
If you want to try the new NativeUI on your Android device, you can download the latest nightly builds here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android#Download_Nightly
What's in them? See here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/NightlyFeatures
How To Build, Test, and Debug
The project repository is here: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central
Follow the instructions from Mobile/Fennec/Android.
Architecture Overview
Get a bird's eye view of how the native UI version of Fennec is structured. There are also some examples of messaging between Java and XUL/JS.
Design
The UI design is under revision, to make it simpler and to make more use of standard Android controls (i.e. hardware/system menu button, back button) and to make sure that more touchevents can be passed directly to web content.
Overview and detail here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/UserExperience
Coding Style
QA
- Contact: Kevin Brosnan (kbrosnan)
- Bugs: Fennec native UI testing
- Notes: Fennec native UI notes
Weekly Showcase
- Wednesdays @ 12:00 PDT/Warp Core
- Notes 10-26
- 11-9
- 11-16
- 11-23
- 11-30