{"id":12306,"date":"2010-05-07T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-07T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T16:19:00","slug":"mobile-firefox-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/12306-mobile-firefox-for-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Firefox for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fennec, the mobile version of the Firefox web browser is now in testing for Android devices. The Mozilla Foundation, which controls the Firefox browser, has released a &#8220;pre-alpha&#8221; version of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vlad1.com\/2010\/04\/27\/fennec-on-android-ground-zero\/\">Fennec for Google&#8217;s operating system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To date Fennec has only been available for Nokia&#8217;s Maemo platform, which runs on devices such as the N900.<\/p>\n<p>Until just a short time ago Mozilla said that it wasn&#8217;t interested in building a Fennec version for Android because Google&#8217;s operating system didn&#8217;t allow for building native applications. Applications on Android had to be run on a version of Java &#8211; known as Dalvik &#8211; which was largely seen as unsuitable.<\/p>\n<p>Google has now made available a software development kit for building native applications on Android, encouraging the likes of Mozilla to renew their Android efforts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxfordevices.com\/c\/a\/News\/Mobile-Firefox-Fennec-for-Android-and-Rubins-Flash-comments\/\">According to LinuxForDevices<\/a>&nbsp;the pre-alpha has been tested on the Motorola Droid and the Nexus One phones so far.<\/p>\n<p>Although still in early development the pre-alpha release includes an experimental version of the Weave synchronisation technology. Weave synchronises Firefox tabs, passwords, history and bookmarks between desktop and mobile versions of Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla released the first official version of Fennec earlier this year. That version was for the Maemo platform only.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla has also produced a version for Windows Mobile, but with that OS on its way out &#8211; to be replaced by Windows Mobile 7 &#8211; Mozilla has stopped development. Microsoft isn&#8217;t providing a software development kit for Windows Mobile 7 so Mozilla is unlikely to develop a version for Microsoft&#8217;s new mobile OS either. And for the same reason, there will not be a version for the iPhone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?230242-Mozilla-Mobile-Firefox-for-Android\"><strong>Mobile Firefox for Android<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozilla Foundation has released an early test version of Fennec, the mobile Firefox browser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}