Mobile
Firefox for mobile (Fennec)
"Fennec" is the code name of Mozilla's project to develop Firefox for mobile devices. For more information about developing and using mobile Firefox, see:
- Mobile Firefox home page - Download Firefox for mobile phones
- Fennec project page - Developer documentation and status
- Firefox Help for Mobile - ask and answer questions about mobile Firefox problems
Firefox Sync for iPhone
The Firefox Home app for iPhone uses Firefox Sync to give you on-the-go access to bookmarks, open tabs, and browsing history from Firefox on your laptop and desktop computers.
Goals
Bringing Firefox to mobile phones is the next step towards fulfilling Mozilla’s mission of providing access to one Web that everyone can access, regardless of device or location. The overall goals for Mobile Firefox are:
- Provide a platform for developers to create compelling and Download Android Apps content and applications using the latest Web technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
- Deliver an exceptional mobile experience to users, complete with the performance, personalization and security they expect.
- 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 Mobile FAQ. For more info about our mobile initiatives, check out our list of platforms and projects.
Keep in Touch
- Weekly engineering meeting - Wednesdays at 9:30 AM, US/Pacific time.
- Read our development blogs
- Follow us on Twitter
- Join our Facebook group
- Watch our videos on YouTube
Get Involved
- No matter what browser or device you use, please take a moment to fill out a quick form to help us improve your mobile browsing experience.
- Be a part of our active Firefox for mobile community and take part in our events and activities.
- Developers and Firefox mobile users: Tell us what you think of our product, either using this feedback form or by filing a bug in Bugzilla.
- Have a question, or want to contribute? Come to the #mobile channel on irc.mozilla.org.
- Answer questions in our support forum.
- Ideas that we would like to see made into add-ons
Embedding for Mobile
One of the two major goals for our mobile work is to enable embedding of the Mozilla core technology in various mobile phones and other products with any of: constrained system resources, significant mobile user experiences and/or telephony.
Key projects pages: