How To Browse with Firefox on Windows Mobile - Fennec

Mozilla's mobile Firefox browser, which is codenamed Fennec, is now available for Windows Mobile. Mozilla has released a pre-alpha test build of the Windows Mobile port for users who want to get an early look at the program. This release is designed to work on an HTC Touch Pro and might not work yet on other devices.

The release is distributed as a 9MB CAB installer which you can download from Mozilla's FTP repository. It includes a mobile version of XULRunner which is used as Fennec's runtime. The port is still at an early stage of development, but the availability of a Windows Mobile version demonstrates Mozilla's commitment to bring the browser to a wide range of handsets across multiple platforms.

The mobile browser market is highly competitive and there are some compelling alternatives to Fennec that are already available for Windows Mobile users. Opera has done great things with Opera Mobile 9.5, which delivers a Web browsing experience that rivals the iPhone and has some interesting additional features such as support for the W3C Web widget standard. Another alternative that has a lot of potential is SkyFire, a mobile browser that leverages sever-side Gecko rendering and provides excellent support for streaming video.  Microsoft is also gearing up to Internet Explorer 6 to replace its current version of Pocket Internet Explorer.

Fennec offers several key advantages over the rest of the pack, but the most significant is its extensibility. Much like Firefox on the desktop, Fennec is designed to support third-party extensions that can increase the functionality of the browser and enhance the user interface.

Here is a video of the Alpha from Pocket Now that does a great job of giving you an overview.

Price: Free
Site: https://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0a1/releasenotes/

Blog Article Adapted From:
https://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/02/mozilla-launches-fennec-milestone-release-for-windows-mobile.ars