{"id":294,"date":"2008-12-23T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T15:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=294"},"modified":"2014-04-21T00:12:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T07:12:02","slug":"fennec-alpha-2-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2008\/12\/23\/fennec-alpha-2-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Fennec alpha 2 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: Mozilla announced the release of Fennec alpha 2, an early developer release of the mobile version of Firefox, on Monday, December 22, 2008.\u00a0 See Engineering Manager Stuart Parmenter&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pavlov.net\/2008\/12\/22\/fennec-alpha-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">comprehensive post<\/a> for more details, excerpted here:<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re happy to announce that our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/fennec\/1.0a2\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">second alpha<\/a> release of <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Mobile\" target=\"_blank\">Fennec<\/a> has come together.\u00a0 While we focused much of the previous alpha on getting the user experience how we wanted, we\u2019ve spent much of the time since focused on improving performance.\u00a0 We\u2019ve made major strides improving startup performance, panning and zooming performance, and responsiveness while pages are loading.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postentry\">\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/fennec\/1.0a2\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">release notes<\/a> have information on a quick start, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/fennec\/1.0a2\/releasenotes\/#install\" target=\"_blank\">how to install<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/fennec\/1.0a2\/releasenotes\/#new\" target=\"_blank\">what\u2019s new<\/a>, known issues and how to provide feedback. So if you\u2019re interested in getting involved with Mozilla Mobile, install Fennec and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/fennec\/1.0a2\/releasenotes\/#feedback\" target=\"_blank\">tell us what you think<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations to the entire mobile team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: Mozilla announced the release of Fennec alpha 2, an early developer release of the mobile version of Firefox, on Monday, December 22, 2008.\u00a0 See Engineering Manager Stuart Parmenter&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2008\/12\/23\/fennec-alpha-2-released\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,66],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fennec alpha 2 released - 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