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Mobile Wiki
Get the latest news, status and developer documentation on the Mozilla mobile project. Check out the mobile project's goals, and how you can help out and get involved!
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Build Great Mobile Add-ons
Firefox is the world's first Web browser to support mobile add-ons. Learn about Extension Basics, Extension Best Practices, helpful Code Snippets, and more so you can build innovative add-ons for Firefox on Android and Firefox on Nokia's Meego platform.
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Location-Aware Applications
Learn how to use the Geolocation API and put people on the right path. Location-Aware Browsing is a must when you're out and about on your mobile. Learn how to build innovative apps that delight your audience.
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Help build Firefox for Mobile
Your help is vital to the success of Firefox. Provide feedback on our IRC channel, join our Wednesday development meeting, or even file some bugs.
Watch Mobile Videos
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Firefox Sync
Why Sync up, Security and More
See Ragavan demo Firefox Sync on his Android phone. Learn about purpose and goals behind the development of Firefox Sync.
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Fennec
Pre-Alpha Fennec and HTML5 Demos
See Stuart demo HTML5 capabilities on pre-alpha Fennec. Learn about the purpose and goals behind the development of Firefox 4 for mobile.
Favorite Mobile Articles
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Firefox for mobile: What's coming next
The projects and planning never stops. We're cooking up some amazing new features and improvements for our next major release. Check it out and see how you can help us continue to make the world's best mobile Web browser.
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"HTML5 is Great for Mobile, Developers Say"
Hear from other developers about the advantages of HTML5 and developing for the mobile Web in this article from ReadWriteWeb:
"'Hands down, the developer pool for HTML / JS rock stars is tenfold larger [and] there is no download attrition. You simply point people at a URL and there you go -- it's installed.' The fact that apps can be directly installed by URL rather than by waiting for an App Store download means that developers reduce barriers to virality."
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Android APIs
Access Android APIs on this Android Developer page.
Recent Mobile News & Updates
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Chris Lord: Eurogamer Expo 2012
One of the perks of being a Virgin Media customer (beyond getting my name wrong and constant up-sell harassment) is that I got cheap, early-access Eurogamer Expo tickets! This was my first Eurogamer Expo, though I'm no stranager to ECTS or ATEI/EAG. The setup was quite good - perhaps a ...
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Geoff Brown: Mobile Firefox Performance Measures – September Check-up
Let’s see how our mobile performance measures did in September…. Talos This section shows Perfomatic graphs from graphs.mozilla.org for mozilla-central builds of Native Fennec (Android opt). The test names shown are those used on tbpl. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Buildbot/Talos for background on Talos. Some of these graphs are difficult to read because ...
Posted by gbrown-mozilla
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Naoki Hirata: How to root your Galaxy S to Cynogenmod 10 Nightly…
Disclaimer: there is a chance that you may mess up your phone. I am warning you ahead of time that you are doing this at your own risk and that I might not be able to help you! I didn’t bother backing up… you may want to do so : ...
Posted by shizen008
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Matt Brubeck: Metro Firefox without Windows 8
A few weeks ago I started working on the Firefox “Metro UI” project, for Windows 8’s Metro (or Modern) touch-screen environment. While we’re still working on getting our first preview builds ready for Windows 8 users to try out, you can already check out the current source code from the ...
Posted by mbrubeck@limpet.net (Matt Brubeck)
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Sriram Ramasubramanian: Sharing is Caring
As a part of our ongoing “Fennec should have its own theme” approach, we felt the Share activity chooser provided by Android varies between releases. Also, opening a Share Activity Chooser, causes the foreground browser to go into background, calls onPause(), and on and on. With the implementation of SubMenu ...
Posted by Sriram Ramani


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