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Fourth Alpha for Fennec on Windows Mobile

I’m really happy to announce the fourth alpha release of Fennec for Windows Mobile. It has been some time since we released the third alpha and things have come quite far since then. Please have a look at this video walk through to get a sense of how things are shaping up. alpha 4 walk [...]

test-agent (aka SUT)

Today our ip based test-agent set-up ran through all 437 xpcshell tests for the first time on a Samsung Omnia II. This is a major step forward and everyone is pretty excited (Yay team!).

Fennec Alpha 3 for Windows Mobile

We’re very happy to announce the availability of Fennec Alpha 3 for Windows Mobile. There are lots of great features and fixes included in this release including improved panning and start up performance and support for different screen sizes and resolutions.

Fennec Beta 2 for Maemo and Alpha 2 for Windows Mobile

Yesterday we announced the first multi-platform release of Fennec. They are versioned Beta 2 for Maemo and Alpha 2 for Windows Mobile. Both are based on the same front end and back end code. The Beta and Alpha labels reflect the difference in maturity and stability of the underlying platform.

Fennec Alpha 1 for Windows Mobile

We are pleased to announce that Fennec Alpha 1 for Windows Mobile 6 is available for download by developers and testers. This is an early developer release intended for testing purposes only. We would like to invite interested Windows Mobile developers and users to join with Mozilla’s developer and user community to help develop, test [...]

Memory Dragon Slain

The pre-alpha build we released in February got a lot of criticism (and rightfully so) for what became known as the “checkerboard” issue. Mark Finkle blogged about the problem and the solution before. Tonight I pushed the fix to mozilla-central, here are some details. It all comes down to memory. Simply put, we were running [...]

Fennec Tab syncing

Jono just blogged about one of the more unique (and down right awesome) features we’re planning for Fennec, tab syncing. Its part of our overall syncing effort called Weave. Several use cases have been thrown around, but the one that rings the loudest for me goes something like this: You’re looking for a new restaurant [...]

Fennec Milestone Release for Windows Mobile

On behalf of everyone who have been tirelessly working towards this goal, I would like to announce that our first milestone release of Fennec for Windows Mobile is now available for download.

Fennec on E-Ink – More progress

Jaya just dropped me a note about this video he posted of Fennec running on his gumstix device with an E-Ink display. This is impressive progress to say the least. After watching the video I wonder if there are any interface changes we can make that would work better with the display and its refresh [...]