{"id":545840,"date":"2010-04-28T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/?p=14888"},"modified":"2010-04-28T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:19:14","slug":"pre-alpha-release-of-firefox-mobile-fennec-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545840","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Alpha Release of Firefox Mobile (Fennec) Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"KonaBody\">\n<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidguys.com%2F2010%2F04%2F28%2Fprealpha-release-firefox-mobile-fennec%2F\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidguys.com%2F2010%2F04%2F28%2Fprealpha-release-firefox-mobile-fennec%2F&amp;source=AndroidGuys&amp;style=normal&amp;service=bit.ly\" height=\"61\" width=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p class=\"first-child \"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/fennec.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14889\" title=\"fennec\" src=\"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/fennec-180x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>A very early look at the upcoming Firefox Mobile &#8220;Fennec&#8221; browser is now available to Android users thanks to one the developers behind the project.\u00a0 Before you go running off to download the app, there are a few things you should know.\u00a0 This should be considered &#8220;pre-alpha&#8221; and is by no means a 100% stable client.\u00a0 In fact, this should actually be classified as simply usable.\u00a0 There are known bugs and issues with the software that will likely frustrate the average user.<span id=\"more-14888\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out a few of the bullet points from developer <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vlad1.com\/2010\/04\/27\/fennec-on-android-ground-zero\/\" >Vladimir Vuki\u0107evi\u0107&#8217;s blog<\/a>:<\/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<li>This build must be installed to internal memory, not to a SD  card.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;d also like to add that <strong>Fennec is a 10MB download that expands to over 31MB upon installation<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re running low on system resources, you might want to skip this app altogether.\u00a0 No sense in choking your phone out just to play with a buggy web browser.<\/p>\n<p>We know you&#8217;re going to ignore us and download it anyway so here&#8217;s how to do it.\u00a0 Point your Android phone to <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/fennec-android\" >bit.ly\/fennec-android <\/a>or scan the barcode below and you&#8217;ll be able to grab it directly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3  class=\"related_post_title\">Might We Suggest&#8230;<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"related_post\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/2010\/03\/30\/early-build-firefox-mobile-fennec-sneaks\/\" title=\"Early Build of Firefox Mobile (Fennec) Sneaks Out [VIDEO]\">Early Build of Firefox Mobile (Fennec) Sneaks Out [VIDEO]<\/a><br \/><small>A member of the AndroidForums named MartinSchirr has released a very early look at the forthcoming Fennec web browser for Android.  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