Mozilla is now providing our nightly package repository. Also, Fennec is now installed in /opt, so if you were having space issues before give us another shot. (original instructions here)
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/repos/1.9.2_multi/1.9.2_multi_nightly.install
Short url: http://bit.ly/6ccalh
Could the mobile web save Windows mobile, by providing users with most of the applications every other platform has? Gruber:
That might actually be true, and it actually gives them a chance — if they were either able to produce a WebKit-caliber mobile browser or willing simply to adopt WebKit themselves. A big if, but at least that’s possible.
The “if” is not as big as that: there is already browser competition on WinMo, and some of the browsers are already standards compliant and HTML5 ready. As a shameless plug, we have an alpha out there that stands up pretty well.
Chris notes with the rises popularity of application stores and TV devices, the URL as we know it may lose its power and ubiquity. In my words, Chris argues that although URLs do increase complexity it is a complexity worth keeping. Another vigil: Joe Hewitt. Although the URL is not going anywhere anytime soon, I’m glad to see it has watchdogs.
The super easy way for N900 owners. For extension developers or users who would like to keep up with the latest and greatest copies of Mobile Firefox, Joel Maher is graciously hosting a debian repository (UPDATE: an official repository is now available–URL has been changed from Joel’s to official):
We could definitely use your help testing as we grind towards our 1.0 release. If you have any thoughts or find a bug, please ping us on IRC (irc.mozilla.org, channel #mobile) or file a bug.
Taken from AdMob data:
First up we have smartphone ad request from just the United States. Android started at 1% and steadily rose to 17%. This was due large in part to two Android phones: the HTC Dream and HTC Magic
That’s some significant growth for Android on the mobile web. With a lot of new phones on the horizon for the holiday season, Android is looking like an unstoppable juggernaut.
The demo is hard to see because of screen glare, but our UX designer Madhava goes into some detail about the design decisions that went into making Firefox for a mobile phone. One of our big challenges is how to optimize the use of screen space:
For the small screen problem, one of the things we do is when you start to use a page, the controls you don’t need anymore pan off the top of the screen…just by using the page, UI you don’t need goes away.
Uniquely, mobile Firefox takes this one further step by spatially relating browser controls with the page, similar to the URL bar at the top of the page. Controls can be found off the left or right of web content with a quick flick.