Mobile/Fennec

Firefox for Android

"Fennec" is the code name for the mobile version of Firefox. We are currently focused on developing Firefox for Android. For details about other platforms, see Mobile/Platforms. If you are looking to contribute, check out our get involved page!

• Roadmap
• Installing Firefox for Android
• Development Documentation
• Product Planning
• Triage
• QA
• Performance and Memory Dashboards
• Firefox for Android Support
• Firefox for Android Add-ons and Building Add-ons
• FAQ
• List of projects

Technical Briefs

Looking for more information about various parts of Firefox for Android. Here are some summary pages:

• Logic behind Session Restore
• Background on Distribution / Partner Packs
• Background on WebApps
• What is the onboarding experience?

Communication

• Subscribe to the mobile-firefox-dev mailing list
• Join #mobile on IRC
• Follow @FennecNightly on Twitter
• Read our development blogs
• Attend our weekly engineering meeting - Wednesdays at 9:30 AM, US/Pacific time

Old Wiki Pages

• Fennec vision statement
• Fennec user experience
• Architecture overview for XUL Fennec
• Incomplete: Architecture Overview
• UX Research Questions
• Fennec 2.0 Planning
• Performance/Memory issues
• Startup optimization
• XUL optimization
• Memory optimization
• Profiling
• Memory reduction
• How to write Fennec tests
• Interesting web pages to test
• Miscellaneous tips and tricks
• Debugging
• Viewport
• Incomplete: Gecko-Java Messaging