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Tried Fennec Milestone Release for Windows Mobile
Last week, Mozilla has released the early version of Firefox Mobile, “Fennec” for Windows Mobile (pre-alpha).
Just like the earlier release was only for VGA Nokia devices like N800, this WinMo-release targets only one device, HTC Touch Pro.
Unfortunately I could not borrow an actual HTC “Fuze” (AT&T version of Touch Pro), so I tested via DeviceAnywhere service.
Just typed in the Mozilla’s ftp address directly on PIE (I have no reasons why I didn’t use the default Opera Mobile), downloading and installing was fine (Pic.1).
I got a pretty Fennec icon on screen. Nice. But I hope Mozilla will make it less jaggy for the next release. (Pic.2)
Clicked the icon and wait, wait, wait… pretty slow. When I almost lost my patience, the browser finally launched… its title bar. Let’s wait for more. -nothing happened.
Quit and relaunched. – the same result.
Re-installed. – the same result. (Pic.3)
 Pic.1 – Installing Fennec |
 Pic.2 – Fennec icon |
 Pic.3 – WTF |
Conclusion: Somebody please help me. I can’t make it work!!!
Links:
- Download URL: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/fennec-0.11.en-US.wince-arm.cab
- Mozilla FTP Index for mobile
- Brad’s Blog – Fennec Milestone Release for Windows Mobile
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You’re getting as far along as you can, unfortunately. See http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2009/02/fennec-windows-mobile-pre-alpha-problems/
We should have an update soon.
Testing via DeviceAnywhere – Nice
So this is not just me… it is in a “showstopper” state. oh bummer!
But Mark, keep up the great work, and I am looking forward to see it working soon!!!
(I also wonder if there’s any plan to support smaller-than-VGA devices though…)