Mobile Firefox codenamed Fennec before the end of the year

Mobile Firefox codenamed Fennec before the end of the year. We already heard about Firefox Mobile version before on the previous report: Firefox codename Fennec Browser 6X Faster than MicroB (built in browser on Nokia N810), Recently, In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Mozilla CEO, John Lilly confirmed that the "alpha" release of the mobile phone web browser, code named Fennec will be available before the end of the year. It has been generally expected though that a stable release for the average consumer may not be ready until the end of next year.

“Device manufacturers are interested in open-source solutions where there is a desire for increased control of their software footprint, and where they can bring internal programming resources to bear,” says research director Michael Wolf. “At the same time, vendors such as Opera are seeing strong growth in their mobile browser offerings, which provide the ability to access Web pages with advanced features such as zoom, bookmark syncing, and landscape mode, while also permitting handset vendors and operators to focus development resources elsewhere.”

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