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Mozilla Fennec Description

Release of the mobile version of Firefox

This is an early developer release of the mobile version of Firefox, for testing purposes only, intended to:

* get wider community feedback on our approach to the user experience
* engage Mozilla community teams, including localizers, add-on developers, and testers
* get feedback from Web developers

The focus of development so far has been on building a new user interface that reflects Firefox's design principles, and adds touch screen support and other features that are appropriate for mobile phones and other handheld devices. We plan to do further alpha releases which focus on performance, including projects like TraceMonkey, speculative parsing, and many Fennec and Gecko optimizations. But in the meantime, we feel it is important to make this early release available to continue to grow the community and gather feedback as early as possible in the development process.

To help out, visit the Mozilla mobile page to learn about our public weekly meetings, how to find our community on IRC, and more.

These Release Notes provide a "quick start" for the impatient, some highlights of what's included in this version, download and installation instructions, known issues, and frequently asked questions. Please read these notes and the bug filing instructions before reporting bugs to Bugzilla.

Features

* UI modes
o full screen
o portrait/landscape
* mouse pointer for non-touch screen devices
* zoom
o zoom to relevant section
o zoom to width
o zoom to height
o zoom to fit page
* scrolling/panning
o kinetic
o normal (through keys)
o accelerated
* security (e.g. how does the user know the site is secure?)
* tabbed browsing
* spatial navigation
o keyboard shortcuts
* layout
o ssr (single column display)
o fit to width
o fit to height
o scrollbar-free layout
o viewport meta tag
* breakpad for ARM
* installers for Linux (Debian?), Windows Mobile
* virtual keyboard
* text input
o password/input manager + native integration
* low memory handlers
* start page
* basic navigation/UI design
* localization
* fonts?
* text layout (harfbuzz)
* send page/URL
* device integration through Javascript
* determine build profile (simple, basic) and what needs to be removed/added
* wow-factor
o radical new UI

Docs

* installation tutorials
* build tutorials
* advanced features tutorials (e.g. settings)
* canned bugzilla queries (easy-to-fix, platform specific, ...)

Developer tools

* mobile firebug
o remote debugging
* XUL simulator

Apps

* bookmarks
o bookmark all open windows/tabs
o bookmark "tabset" for easily restoring older sessions
* history
* update
* integration with Weave?
* URL entry
o awesome bar
* on device search (same as awesome bar?)
o in current window
o in all open windows/tabs
o in history
o in bookmarks
* add-on manager
* password manager
* settings
o site specific preferences
* "native" search apps?
* download manager
o accessible through context menu on page for e.g. image, audio, video, etc.

Unsorted New Features

* how do we handle html select tags. For example, do we bring up a dialog showing the options, or do we keep them on the page.
* How do we handle RSS
* requirement: all UI needs to be id'd so that developers can use overlays effectively.
* Saving content (being able to Save-As for the page, the selected image, etc)
* Clipboard & selection
* Printing?
* Find
* Page Info
* Clearing Private Info (purging cache, etc.)
* Error console, Javascript console
* Update functionality
* AMO support -- what does the website have to do to support us
* Preferences window
* Popup blocking
* Certificate Management
* Proxy settings
* about: message
* visual eye-candy (need iconic love)
* EULA changes
* ReadMe ( if any )
* startup screen ( due to the slow startup time, showing something immediately might be helpful - at the very least to show progress )
* Allowing a user to change their Home page.
* Weave Synchronization
* Handheld media type attribute
* Useragent discussion - what are we?
* Autosuggestion of mobile site (suggest that a load to cnn.com goes to mobile.cnn.com)
* GPS Integration.
* tel: support
* mail link support
* ad block / image block
* scroll bar support

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