Small Fox Discovered While on Safari

by Creighton on April 27, 2008

As of last week thoughts of a small African fox, the Fennec, make me giddy. The fine folks at Mozilla (the brains behind Firefox, of course) have started work on a mobile browser - finally! The announcement last week, for Firefox Jr. aka Fennec, is great news as pretty much the only real mobile browser success so far as been with iPhone Safari users. Windows Mobile, we were an arranged marriage anyways, so no love lost there. Sorry, Opera it's just not working out, let's just be friends. Hello Fennec! Hearing common sense thoughts from the Mozilla camp like, "With most mobile browsers, basic activities like URL entry, bookmarking and search are too hard to use. These need attention, and "awesome-bar" like innovation. An equivalent to multiple windows/tabs is needed." makes me think that they might be the ones with enough open source momentum to finally bring a decent mobile browser to the masses.