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Firefox for your mobile phone comes complete with favorite and familiar features that you enjoy on your desktop:

* The Awesome Bar searches your history, bookmarks and tags to go to your favorite sites instantly
* Share your Firefox preferences, history, and bookmarks between your desktop and mobile
* Add-ons to make your browser your own
* Tabs that let you browse multiple sites at once
* One-touch bookmarking to quickly organize websites
* And more…

Benefits for Developers

* Put your innovations in the hands of people all over the world to access anytime, anywhere
* Build rich mobile applications using the latest Web technology like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
* Tap into the device capabilities of the phone, such as geolocation, camera and calling
* Develop game changing add-ons on the first mobile Web browser to offer add-ons

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The purpose of defining a set of release themes is to guide our development, and specifically to help us set release criteria and to make trade-offs where two things we value come in conflict with each other and we need to pick one.

We aim to embody the values and design principles that make the desktop version of Firefox successful, but with an implementation appropriate to the mobile environment.

In priority order, here are the key themes of the first Fennec release:

1. Simple, fast navigation to Web content – We need to pay close attention to very basic operations that are still hard to accomplish on most mobile phones, like entering URLs, managing bookmarks, providing an equivalent to multiple windows/tabs, designing zooming and scrolling to achieve readability; we will need to question assumptions about how people use the Web when they’re on the go, and not view the UI as a “port” of desktop Firefox.

2. Compatibility with the Web – Fennec will provide access to the “full” Web, including rich internet applications developed using AJAX. Web content developers should be able to optimize to smaller screen sizes, etc., but not be required to adopt alternate technologies.

3. Secure – Providing a powerful desktop browser engine with full implementation of JavaScript, AJAX, and other advanced web technologies could open a phone up to exploits which could be more costly and more invasive than PC exploits; security will need to be a key consideration from day one.

4. A “whole product” for mobile – Subject to the security constraints above, Fennec should strive to integrate as much as possible with a phone’s mapping application, have the ability to initiate phone calls from phone numbers in Web pages, have access to location information through, and integrate with contacts, calendar items and camera. We should work to ensure that critical necessary plug-ins work out of the box.

5. A platform for innovation on mobile – A key strength of Firefox is its support for third-party innovation through full support for rich internet applications and for Add-ons. By providing full support for JavaScript, AJAX, offline storage and other key ingredients of RIAs, as well as JavaScript access to native phone features, Fennec will enable a whole new wave of mobile application development. Fennec will support Add-ons as well, so that the mobile browsing experience can be augmented and improved by anyone.

The rationale behind the prioritization is this: If we have addressed themes 1-3, and created a super easy-to-use browser that works on a majority of Web sites and is secure, a case could be made to ship without all of the phone hooks and Add-on support exemplified by items 4 and 5, and add those in a follow-on release.