Mobile/Fennec

About the Fennec (Mobile Firefox) Project

"Fennec" is the code name of the effort to build a mobile version of Firefox. To download, use, and learn about mobile Firefox, see:

• Mobile Firefox home page - Download Firefox for mobile phones
• Mobile Firefox support - ask and answer questions about mobile Firefox problems
• Mozilla Mobile wiki - news and information about Mozilla mobile development

Still have questions? See our FAQ for Mobile. If you're interested in what we'll be working on over the next 6 months or so, please see Mobile/Planning.

Supported Platforms

Mozilla is developing Firefox for Nokia Maemo and Google Android. See Mobile/Platforms for more details.

Features

Firefox for mobile is packed with your favorite features, including:

• Awesome Bar – Go to your favorite sites in just a couple of keystrokes with intelligent and personalized searching
• Weave Sync – Sync your Firefox tabs, history, bookmarks and passwords between your desktop and mobile device for a seamless browsing experience
• Add-ons – Customize your Firefox by adding small pieces of functionality, like games and news readers, that help make the mobile Web browser your own
• Location-Aware Browsing – Get maps and information relevant to your location
• Tabbed browsing – View open tabs as thumbnails to easily identify and select the Web page you’d like to go to next
• Safe Browsing – Get an Instant Web Site ID and easily access and edit security settings
• Available in more than 30 languages and counting

See the complete list of Mobile Features.

Proposed Device + Location APIs

Project and Design Documents

• Fennec vision statement
• Fennec user experience
• Building extensions for Fennec
• Architecture overview of the front-end UI

Performance

Performance, memory consumption and on-device footprint are crucial to both embedders and Fennec.

• Performance/Memory issues
  • Startup optimization
  • XUL optimization
  • Memory optimization
  • Profiling
  • Memory reduction

Current blocking 1.9+ performance issues

Building and Running Fennec

• Ports, build instructions, platform support
• Download official builds for mobile and desktop platforms
• Miscellaneous tips and tricks

Testing Fennec

• Mobile QA Home
• /Cheat Codes for developers and testers
• Fennec 1.0 Test Plan
• Unit Test Automation (mochitest, chrome, reftest, crashtest, xpcshell)
• Running Mochitests on Fennec for Nokia
  
• Maemo 4 Test Farm Notes
• Interesting web pages to test

Test Builds

• Mozilla 1.9.2 (Fennec 1.1) nightly builds
• Trunk (Fennec 2.0) nightly builds
• Latest beta release builds

Bugs

• Open Fennec bugs
• Unconfirmed Fennec bugs
• Fennec bugs created in the last 10 days
• Fennec 1.1 blockers
• Fennec nominated blockers