Mozilla has just announced the availability of a pre-alpha build of Fennec for Android smartphones, Fennec is a free mobile Web browser for all open platforms. The build wasn’t official as it was put together by an individual and optimized for the Droid device. A few warnings from one of the developers working on Fennec for Android, Vladimir Vuki?evi?, include copious and random bug occurrences, more-than-likely required battery pulls, optimization at this point is shit, and links won’t natively open in Fennec currently.
This build should be considered “pre-alpha”, so there are some warnings and caveats:
* We’ve only really tested this on the Motorola Droid and the Nexus One.
* It will likely not eat your phone, but bugs might cause your phone to stop responding, requiring a reboot.
* Memory usage of this build isn’t great — in many ways it’s a debug build, and we haven’t really done a lot of optimization yet. This could cause some problems with large pages, especially on low memory devices like the Droid.
* You’ll see the app exit and relaunch on first start, as well as on add-on installs; this is a quirk of our install process, and we’re working to get rid of it.
* You can’t open links from other apps using Fennec; we should have this for the next build.
* This build requires Android 2.0 or above, and likely an OpenGL ES 2.0 capable device.
* Edit: This build must be installed to internal memory, not to a SD card.
Download pre-Alpha build of Fennec browser here via [Techcrunch]
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