Firefox For Mobile Devices

Firefox for Mobile Devices

Dietrich Ayala

Mobile Portland UG 5/27/08

Previously: Minimo

• Windows Mobile

• France Telecom (mobile widgets)

• Panasonic (Dell Axim for inflight orders)

• Not conclusive

Joey: Firefox Companion

• Tightening desktop and mobile browsing by sharing data between them

• Beyond “send to phone”

• text, images, video.

Firefox 3

Speed

• JavaScript

• Startup time

• Page load time

• PGO

JavaScript

Memory

Fennec

“We're not out to create a me-too browser, we're out to bring the Web to mobile phones in

a richer, broader way than has been achieved before, and to make the Web a rich platform for

developers who want to create compelling content and applications for mobile phones.”

- Fennec guiding principle

touchscreen

More touchscreen

And more...

touchbar?

Spatial Navigation

What else?

• geolocation API for the web

• offline

• sync (weave)

• extensions!

Thanks

• #mobile on irc.mozilla.org

• http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile