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Firefox Mobile Pre-Alpha Now Available for VGA Windows Mobile Phones

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Just as Mozilla’s developer wiki cryptically promised last week, a pre-alpha build of Firefox Mobile ‘Fennec’ has been made available for the HTC Touch Pro, though it’ll work on many other VGA (480×640) WinMo phones.

https://gizmodo.com/firefox-mobile-headed-for-windows-mobile-as-early-as-ne-5140839

The build is very rough and probably not usable for day-to-day browsing—early reports suggest that the loading time is very long, and that page loading is quite slow pretty much broken—but it might provide a glimpse of where Firefox Mobile is headed, how it will render pages and if its novel control scheme is usable on a device smaller than the N810.

https://gizmodo.com/download-first-firefox-mobile-alpha-release-5065244

The CAB download is available here, but I had no luck launching the app on my T-Mobilized HTC Touch Diamond variant. Let us know about your successes and failures in the comments. UPDATE: A consensus has emerged! It’s not at all ready yet. It’s to be taken as an assurance of forward movement, I guess. [WMExperts via Slashphone]

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