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What On Earth Is Mozilla’s Mystery iPhone App?

2:14AM John Herrman | Mozilla’s CEO says an iPhone app is due within a few weeks, and that it’ll “surprise people.” I mean, that’s neat and all, but the most exciting possibility—Firefox—would be the least surprising. So, uh, what is it? More »
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Firefox Achieves One Billion Downloads, 31% Marketshare

7:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Firefox, the open-source upstart launched in 2004, is officially now a powerhouse, having been downloaded over one billion times in the last five years. Hell, it’s prominent enough to attract the attention of the Secretary of State. More »
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The Month In Windows Mobile Apps: Fennec the Fox Gets Some Exercise

5:00AM John Herrman | In yet another one of our new mobile app roundups, we’ve taken a reckless swan dive into the vast, burbling ocean of Windows Mobile software. Mozilla’s Fennec browser goes for a test run, VLC gets a remote, and more.
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Mobile Firefox Hits Beta 1, Available for Nokia N810

2:03PM Jason Chen | A walkthrough of Fennec (mobile Firefox) beta release 1.The Firefox Mobile, a.k.a. Fennec, just hit Beta 1, and can be downloaded right now for any Nokia N810 internet tablet. No “real” phones can use this yet. More »
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Firefox Mobile Pre-Alpha Now Available for VGA Windows Mobile Phones

9:11PM John Herrman | 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. More »
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Firefox Mobile Won’t Be Foxing Up Android Anytime Soon

12:30AM Matt Buchanan | Often, when people carp about Mobile Firefox or Opera not being able to run on the iPhone ’cause of Apple’s SDK restrictions, they’ll point to Android and say “I can’t wait for Mobile Firefox on Android” or some variation of that, since Android theoretically doesn’t have any limitations. I’ve got some bad news for those people. Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec) isn’t coming to Android anytime soon. More »