Fennec M9 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. This first alpha release is available for the OS2008 (“Maemo”) software platforms that runs on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablets.

Features:

Easy navigation to Web content:

• Bookmarks, including tags
• Smart URL bar (“awesome bar”)
• Tabbed browsing with thumbnail images
• Integrated Web search – built into the URL bar
• Easy access to multiple search engines

Web content:

• Maximize content by auto-hiding controls and URL bar
• Zoom in and out

Security:

• Instant Web site ID (“Larry“)
• Password manager
• Popup blocker
• Clear private data

Devices services integration:

• Click on a phone number to initiate a call
• JavaScript API to get device location
• Popup blocker
• Clear private data

And also:

• Searchable download manager
• Preferences pane