{"id":545352,"date":"2010-04-27T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/?p=19804"},"modified":"2010-04-27T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:50:10","slug":"official-fennec-pre-alpha-foxes-its-way-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545352","title":{"rendered":"Official Fennec Pre-Alpha Foxes Its Way to the Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;ve reported <a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/03\/news\/fennec-gets-compiled-for-the-motorola-milestone\/\">Mozilla&#8217;s Fennec browser being leaked and compiled<\/a> in the past, the company has just released a &#8220;pre-alpha&#8221; version of the browser to the public. Those who wish to grab the .apk and start browsing can do so by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/fennec-android\">this text link from your phone<\/a>. The release comes via the blog of Vladimir           Vukicevic, an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/profile?key=5900395&amp;authToken=nkIR&amp;authType=name&amp;viewProfile=&amp;locale=\">Infrastructuralist<\/a>&#8221; at Mozilla whose blog has a fair amount of posts about Firefox&#8217; little cousin.<\/p>\n<p>Support includes installing extensions, which I find very cool. Warnings abound: it&#8217;s extremely buggy at the moment, but right now I&#8217;d take something from the developer over some fan-compiled projects.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This build should be considered &#8220;pre-alpha&#8221;, so there are some  warnings and caveats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve only really tested this on the Motorola Droid and the Nexus  One.<\/li>\n<li>It will likely not eat your phone, but bugs might cause your phone  to stop responding, requiring a reboot.<\/li>\n<li>Memory usage of this build isn&#8217;t great &#8212; in many ways it&#8217;s a debug  build, and we haven&#8217;t really done a lot of optimization yet.\u00a0 This could  cause some problems with large pages, especially on low memory devices  like the Droid.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll see the app exit and relaunch on first start, as well as on  add-on installs; this is a quirk of our install process, and we&#8217;re  working to get rid of it.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t open links from other apps using Fennec; we should have  this for the next build.<\/li>\n<li>This build requires Android 2.0 or above, and likely an OpenGL ES  2.0 capable device<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><cite>Vladimir Vuki\u0107evi\u0107<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/04\/news\/official-fennec-pre-alpha-foxes-its-way-to-the-public\/attachment\/welcome-to-fennec\/' title='Welcome to Fennec'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Welcome-to-Fennec-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Welcome to Fennec\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/04\/news\/official-fennec-pre-alpha-foxes-its-way-to-the-public\/attachment\/mozilla-weave\/' title='Mozilla Weave'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mozilla-Weave-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mozilla Weave\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/04\/news\/official-fennec-pre-alpha-foxes-its-way-to-the-public\/attachment\/fennec-banner\/' title='fennec banner'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/fennec-banner-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"fennec banner\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/04\/news\/official-fennec-pre-alpha-foxes-its-way-to-the-public\/attachment\/am\/' title='A&amp;M'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/AM-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"A&amp;M\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3  class=\"related_post_title\">Related Posts<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"related_post\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/03\/news\/fennec-gets-compiled-for-the-motorola-milestone\/\" title=\"Fennec gets compiled for the Motorola Milestone\">Fennec gets compiled for the Motorola Milestone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/03\/news\/firefox-mobile-drops-support-for-windows-phone-makes-android-focus-for-2010\/\" title=\"Firefox Mobile drops support for Windows phone, makes Android focus for 2010\">Firefox Mobile drops support for Windows phone, makes Android focus for 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/02\/news\/mozilla-shows-rapid-progress-on-firefox-mobile-for-android\/\" title=\"Mozilla shows rapid progress on Firefox Mobile for Android\">Mozilla shows rapid progress on Firefox Mobile for Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/02\/news\/sneak-peek-of-firefox-mobile-on-the-nexus-one\/\" title=\"Sneak peek of Firefox on the Nexus One\">Sneak peek of Firefox on the Nexus One<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/02\/news\/firefox-on-android-renders-its-first-web-page-no-plans-for-iphone\/\" title=\"Firefox on Android renders its first web page, no plans for iPhone\">Firefox on Android renders its first web page, no plans for iPhone<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;ve reported Mozilla&#8217;s Fennec browser being leaked and compiled in the past, the company has just released a &#8220;pre-alpha&#8221; version of the browser to the public. Those who wish to grab the .apk and start browsing can do so by visiting this text link from your phone. The release comes via the blog of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6561,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}