Mobile

Goals

The overall goals for Mobile Firefox are:

• provide Mozilla’s standards-based open-source browser engine, optimized for mobile, that can be embedded by device manufacturers and others;
• a full-featured mobile browser including support for XUL-based add-ons, delivering on Firefox’s key principles of ease-of-use, security and accessibility;
• grow the Mozilla community in the mobile space;
• provide tools and documentation to help developers develop, debug and deploy web applications;
• do all of this work in the shared Mozilla source repositories so all platforms, desktop and mobile, benefit each other

For more background on our goals please see these blog posts.

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 the Roadmap.

Mobile Monthly Newsletter

Mozilla publishes a monthly newsletter called "about:mobile" that's dedicated to what's going on with Mobile in the Mozilla Project. Sign up to get the newsletter via email or follow the newsletter posts in the Mozilla Developer News weblog.

Weekly Meetings

There will be a meeting each week to discuss the general status of Mobile. Please use #mobile, dev-platforms-mobile@mozilla.org or mozilla.dev.platforms.mobile for communication

Meeting Details:

• Monday @ 9:00AM PST
• +1 650-903-0800 (US/Intl) x91 conf# 314
• +1 800 707 2533 (US) pin 369 conf# 314
• #mobile for backchannel
• Agenda and notes can be found here

Fennec Status Meeting

This meeting is intended to be a quick status meeting on active and upcoming work for Fennec.

• Thursday @ 9:30AM PST
• +1 650-903-0800 (US/Intl) x91 conf# 314
• +1 800 707 2533 (US) pin 369 conf# 314
• #mobile for backchannel

Embedding for Mobile

One of the two major goals for our mobile work is to enable embedding of the Mozilla core technology is various mobile phones and other products with any of: constrained system resources, significant mobile user experiences and/or telephony.

Key projects pages:

• Embedding Brainstorming - dump ideas here!
• Embedding Use Cases
• New Embedding API

Fennec

"Fennec" is the code name of the effort to build a mobile version of Firefox.

Here are some key project pages:

• Fennec vision statement
• Fennec version 1 requirements
• Fennec user experience
• Fennec install instructions and release notes

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

Device APIs

Proposed Device + Location APIs

Build instructions and patches

Ports, build instructions, platform support

Bugs

Current mobile bugs

Performance

Current blocking 1.9+ performance issues

Features

This is the first draft of a feature list.

Supported Platforms

We have the stated goal of supporting Windows Mobile and Linux devices. Support for other Platforms may be added in the future. We will also support several embedders who are using mozilla technology, and will keep track of that here.

Testing

Our first test page, post interesting urls here.
Running Mochitests on Fennec

Tips & Tricks

Using VNC on a N8x0-series device

On the device goto http://mike.saunby.googlepages.com/x11vncfornokia7702 in the browser. Click on the relevant .deb package at the top of the page. It will now install x11vnc on the device.

Here is a guide on how to use it after it has been installed.

If you are using a Mac you can use Chicken of the VNC.