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Firefox for mobile ‘days away’ from launch
Dec 22nd
The first mobile phone version of the popular web browser Firefox is “days away” from launch, the head of the project has told the BBC.The browser, codenamed Fennec, will initially be available for Nokia’s N900 phone, followed by other handsets.It is currently going through final testing and could be released before the end of the year, said Jay Sullivan at Mozilla, the group behind Firefox.The open-source browser will be able to synchronise with the desktop version. Software will mean that any web pages open in a user’s desktop browser will automatically open in the mobile version.
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Firefox numero uno
Dec 21st
THE MOZILLA FOUNDATION will be celebrating after the web counter outfit Stat Counter revealed that its open source Firefox browser overtook Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the world’s most popular browser for the first time.
The figures show that the Vole’s Internet Exploder 7 has been on a gradual slide this year as users upgraded to IE version 8. However by a strange statistical quirk, IE8 is still not as popular as Mozzarella’s Fireferret 3.5 yet and thus the open sauce furry mammal is for once in its life the world’s number one web browser.