Fennec Alpha 4 Released!

Fennec for Windows mobile alpha 4 is ready to download.  For those who are new to fennec here is a short introduction to fennec. Fennec is built on the same browser engine as the desktop Firefox 3.6 with some extensive under the hood work to optimize for mobile.

This release continues to focus on:

• Stability
• Better Performance
• Integration with Windows Mobile
• Numerous fixes

New since 1.0 alpha 3:

• Improved interactions with the software keyboard
• Fixed painting artifacts from panning
• Faster .exe installer option
• More responsive “fuzzy” zoom
• Option to become default browser
• Opening downloads from download manager fixed
• Password echoing
• Improved panning/scrolling performance
• Improved start-up time
• Numerous bug fixes
• Improved painting performance
• Improved UI polish
• Improved kinetic panning with directional locking
• Ability to scroll frames
• Improved zooming support

Known issues

• Signing is targeted for Windows Mobile beta release
• “Extract Error” that happens during installation bug 535370
• Performance and stability can be degraded by an old profile bug 544917
• Crash or freeze on HTC HD2 either on start up or early in run.
• URL bar is slow to open
• Rotating the display may cause painting or zooming errors

Details: Click here

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