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:
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:
Fennec
"Fennec" is the code name of the effort to build a mobile version of Firefox.
Here are some key project pages:
Performance
Performance, memory consumption and on-device footprint are crucial to both embedders and Fennec.
Device APIs
Build instructions and patches
Ports, build instructions, platform support
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.