Mozilla & Maemo Toni Hermoso Pulido

Mozilla principles ● Internet as a global, public resource ● Encouragement of the Individual experience and expression on the Internet ● Creation, adoption and promotion of Open Technologies ● Community drive and orientation

● have an effective product in the mobile market ● demonstrate that “mobile” is part of one, unified, open web goals/ 2010 goals in Mobile

You took back the Web. Now take it with you. Firefox is going mobile

● For users Your Firefox wherever you go ● For developers ● A platform for creating rich mobile applications Our vision for mobile

combined URL and search matches text in page titles, not just URLs most frequent/recent sites synchronized with Firefox on your PC send your search favicons aid visual id to any engine

Tabbed browsing made easy thumbnails for easy selection new tab intelligent memory management

Swipe for controls bookmark back / forward tools

Getting out of the way “Awesome bar” pans off the screen double-tap to zoom in/out

Add-ons make the browser look & act the way you want ratings/recommendations or search the catalog download manager and preferences

Integrated UI localization

Form assistant & Password Echo

Don’t start from scratch: A new phone shouldn’t force you to re-create your online life Your favorite sites, awesome bar and passwords should travel with you Your Firefox wherever you go Get up and go! Walk away from your desk, take your open tabs with you pick up where you left off

Weave Sync

● The same browser engine as Firefox 3.6 desktop ● Leading Web compatibility ● Optimized for ARM processors ● Includes “TraceMonkey” just-in-time JavaScript compiler ● HTML5 Under the hood

● Location-Aware Browsing (geolocation) ● Web workers ● Offline storage ● ● Native JSON ● and tags HTML5

Mobile developer hell

● Multiple platforms -- each with their own SDKs, distribution mechanisms and security models ● Which platforms? For Which Users? Port, test, update and support that application ● This "plumbing" work dampens innovation, distracting from development of the core technology ● The modern Web browser: Reduce risk and development time, maximize reach for app developers. To hell with it

Mobile Addon Challenge

Adblock Plus in Firefox Mobile

Firefox beta 5 for Maemo devices Firefox emulator (desktop) ● Win32, Linux, Mac OS X Future Platforms: Windows Mobile, Android SUMO for mobile addons.mozilla.org for Mobile Firefox Mobile

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