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The new Mozilla Firefox Mobile Browser for S60 5th generation devices

The War of Mobile Browsers starts here:
First we had the Opera mobile browser and Nokia’s own mobile browser. The came the Iphone safari browse and now Mozilla is researching on launching its own version of Firefox Mobile browser. What this means is that there will be a cut throat competition taking place amongst the top mobile browser developers and we will get to see more powerful and user friendly mobile browsers in future.
Mozilla, company behind the open-source browser Firefox has released a sneak-peak of the interface that will drive mobile version of their popular desktop browser obviously optimized for touch-screen phones.Early screenshots reveal the very simple and clean interface that will definitely requires further improvements and optimization but there is no doubt that will perfectly fit to upcoming S60 5th generation devices with new combined touch / non-touch interface.
It’s clear that the team are thinking hard about changes that will really improve how the system works on mobile phones, with discussions including the irritation iPhone users feel when trying to cancel a page load and finding that the ‘Cancel’ button has become a ‘Reload’ button just before they hit it and ways to keep the Firefox Mobile browsing experience familiar for users of Firefox 3 on the desktop.
Touch vs. Classic interface
There are some contradictor information, some sources claims that new browser is designed for both classic and touch-screen phones but it seems that we’ll definitely get the two versions of the Firefox browser with completely different UI, one optimized for older non-touch lower resolution phones and another one optimized for the touch based devices.Perhaps the most interesting inclusion in the mobile flavor of the browser is a four-tab system whereby up to four pages can be loaded at any one time, then shrunk into a split view where the user can pick which page to bring into focus.
It’ll be interesting to see how a mobile version of the Firefox would stack up to Opera Mobile, and especially Skyfire, its cloned and improved version, or to other big players like the great Safari based browser forced by Apple and Nokia and offers the best mobile browsing experience nowadays

This post was written by: Franklin Manuel

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