Mozilla Labs has announced the release of first version Fennec browser for mobile devices for PC desktops based testing. Both Arm and x86 ports of the browser had been released .Fennec is available for a number of platforms including Maemo, Linux, Windows, Macintosh and Windows Mobile.
With this release mozilla is trying to jump in head on competition with Safari's rendering engine Webkit , which has from sometime emerged as the default browser for all the small and handheld mobile Internet devices.
Release notes for Fennec on Official website say about the browser that "This is an early developer release of the mobile version of Firefox, for testing purposes only, intended to:
* get wider community feedback on our approach to the user experience
* engage Mozilla community teams, including localizers, add-on developers, and testers
* get feedback from Web developers"
Although previous release of Fennec were targeted for being tested on Nokia N810 internet tablet but in second release mozilla labs has tried to cover a number of platforms for the purpose of wider range of assessment for users.
There has been some tremendous gain in performance of Javascript engine in the new release. This is a major field for various browser activities these days. But still it has to compete with Webkit's javascript engine. Though this release is a good head start for mozilla in every terms for start of penetration in MID space.
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