Mozilla Fennec 1.0 Beta 5

Mozilla Fennec - Performance, memory consumption footprint

Performance, memory consumption and on-device footprint


Fennec is the code name of the effort to build a mobile version of Firefox. Fennec is part of the Mozilla effort to enable all mobile phones with a Mozilla application.


The overall goals for Mobile Firefox are:

· provide Mozilla’s standards-based open-source browser engine, optimized for mobile, that can be embedded by device manufacturers and others;

· a full-featured mobile browser including support for XUL-based add-ons, delivering on Firefox’s key principles of ease-of-use, security and accessibility;

· grow the Mozilla community in the mobile space;

· provide tools and documentation to help developers develop, debug and deploy web applications;

· do all of this work in the shared Mozilla source repositories so all platforms, desktop and mobile, benefit each other


Mozilla Fennec features :


UI modes:

- full screen

- portrait/landscape

- mouse pointer for non-touch screen devices


zoom:

- zoom to relevant section

- zoom to width

- zoom to height

- zoom to fit page


scrolling/panning:

- kinetic

- normal (through keys)

- accelerated

- security (e.g. how does the user know the site is secure?)

- tabbed browsing

- spatial navigation - keyboard shortcuts


layout:

- ssr (single column display)

- fit to width

- fit to height

- scrollbar-free layout

- viewport meta tag

- breakpad for ARM

- virtual keyboard

- text input - password/input manager + native integration

- low memory handlers

- start page

- basic navigation/UI design

- localization

- text layout

- send page/URL

- device integration through Javascript

- determine build profile (simple, basic) and what needs to be removed/added

- radical new UI

Mozilla Fennec 1.0 Beta 5 is licensed as Freeware for the Windows operating system / platform. Mozilla Fennec is provided as a free download for all software users (Freeware).