Mozilla has released its first browser for mobile phones, the Firefox 1.0 for Nokia’s Maemo (previously called Fennec) which is the mobile version of the popular Firefox web browser.

The Mobile Firefox 1.0 for Nokia Maemo till recently was only available as a beta which did not allow firefox’s core feature of addons. There are more than 40 addons already available for the new Firefox 1.0 release version mobile platform including several popular Firefox extensions.

The Mobile Firefox 1.0 browser also offers its famous Tabs, Mozilla’s Awesome Bar feature that allows quickly return to sites previously visited by user from history data, a new Weave Sync tool that allows synchronizing bookmarks and other Firefox settings.

Offering far few features and frills than other mobile browsers, like Opera Mobile and Opera Mini, the Firefox for the Nokia Maemo 5 platform is banking on the uniqueness of accommodating third-party, customizable browser extensions (Add-ons) to help its browser win mobile market share.  In the same vein, Mozilla also released its bookmark and history-syncing extension, Weave Sync 1.0, which is available for for both desktop and mobile platform.

For now, Firefox 1.0 mobile browser is available for Nokia’s open-source, Linux-based Mamo operating system on just two devices, viz the N900 smartphone and the N810 Internet tablet and would not offer built-in Flash plug-in support for browser release, but as a workaround, Mozilla has released an add-on called YouTube enabler, that can be installed to view YouTube videos.

Some of the Key Features of Mobile Firefox 1.0:

  • Uncluttered interface: Browser controls are stowed away to present only screen full of contents
  • Bookmark, access tabs and zoom in and out with the touch of finger
  • Awesome Bar: let the Awesome Bar do the searching of visited URLs
  • Add-ons: The first ever mobile Web browser to offer add-ons.
  • Password Manager: Typing passwords on your phone is just plain hard.
  • Get insider info and access maps with Location-Aware Browsing

After this release of Firefox 1.0 mobile browser for limited Nokia handsets, Mozilla plans to roll out its next big release of Mobile Firefox for Windows Mobile enabled handsets followed by Google Android platform.

Download Firefox 1.0 for Maemo 5 (www.firefox.com/mobile)

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