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Mozilla is now tying its hands to get a handful share in the mobile-phone browser market. The organization is getting ready for the release of its flagship browser Firefox avatar for the mobile phones - The Mozilla Fennec. With growing number of mobile devices with web browsing capacities becoming available and telecom companies across the globe having increased its capacities, the entry into the mobile phone browser market by Mozilla is an almost inevitable thing.
Fennec will now compete with Opera, the current leader in the mobile phone browser market who has a market share of 26%. Other notable competitors include Safari (22%), Nokia web browser (19%) and iTouch (10%). Other prominent names in this space include Netfront, Android, Blackberry and Sony PSP.
Reports say that Fennec will come with support for touch screen, a popup blocker and the usual tabbed interface. Though Fennec will become available for Windows and Linux desktop operating systems too, its primary focus will be for the mobile phones only. Nokia N900 would be the first mobile phone for which Fennec will be best released. Fennec would support environments like Android, Nokia’s Maemo, Symbian and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile on the iPhones.
Readers may recall Mozilla had a little upset on sticking on its timeframe for the release of its recent software. The next version of Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and 3.7 got pushed back. And so is the release of the next major edition 4.0. Some experts who have already laid their lands on the beta edition of Firefox 4.0 say that it has brought some of the feature of Google Chrome – particularly the idea of moving the tabs to the top of the screen and that of having each tab run in a separate process thus enabling each instance of the browser run without impacting the other.
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