Fennec leaps into beta

Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox, has gone to beta. Though currently only available for the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, it appears to be functional and stable. Firefox introduced many innovations into desktop browsing, most of which have since been emulated by the competition. On mobile phones the competition is already …

[Anonymous Coward]

"Awesome" redefined, I guess

Feh. I was hoping to replace MicroB on my N810, but not if I have to put up with the Mozilla Foundation's arrogant infliction of popups that cannot be readily disabled. Does anyone know if the irritating hacks that mostly disable that nonsense on the desktop version of Firefox 3 work on Fennec?

Also, why does the Mozilla foundation continue not to understand that, no matter how cool you or anyone else might think your shiny new UI feature is, it's disrespectful to your users not to include some way to turn it off without a lot of messy hacking? What drives an attitude like that?

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Not unique

Opera, Opera mini could dial directly from a page quite some time now..

[Dive Fox]

Yes, that -is- a fox in my pocket!

Cool novelty, I think I'm sticking with Opera Mini though.

[Anonymous Coward]

@Ideala2

For what it's worth, though, I'm fairly sure that no form of Opera or the Android browser is available for the Nokia N810, unless you want to do something like installing an alternative OS or emulator first, which I'm not sure really counts.