TechCrunch’s CrunchPad free to get Mobile Firefox anytime
Posted in: UMPC, software, tags: fennec, firefox, mozilla
TechCrunch’s “dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web,” called the CrunchPad, has been given the go signal by Mark Finkle to use Fennec, Mozilla’s open-source mobile web browser. Firefox was actually Michael Arrington’s first choice for a browser for CrunchPad, but Mark Finkle suggests that Fennec might be more suitable.
Fennec is designed to work well on mobile-class processors with tighter memory requirements. Fennec is also designed for touchscreens and supports the same add-ons mechanism as Firefox. Since Fennec is built on XULRunner, other XUL-based apps (Songbird, Chatzilla) get a free runtime.
So if you’re one of the few people who have access to a CrunchPad prototype, just go ahead and try it out to see how well it works.
Via Mark Finkle
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