Firefox Coming to Android-based Tablets This Year

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 23, 2011

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“Mozilla has plans to release the mobile version of their
browser, known as Fennec, for Honeycomb-based Android tablet
devices later this year. So, the UI for the tablet devices will be
similar to the mobile UI but will include many enhancements that
will make it more tablet-friendly. Firefox plans to bring a rich,
touch-friendly, magazine-like feel to web browsing on these
fast-blooming devices. From the first release itself, the trademark
Awesome bar will be an integral part of the User Interface with
some tweaks. The focus however, will be to make use of the screen
space as much as possible so as to provide a magazine-like feel for
which tablets are known for. On the features front, the tablet
version will just be the mobile version tweaked to run on the
bigger devices. Here are some early mockups of how the final
version might look like.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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