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