
Fennec, the Mozilla Firefox Web browser for Mobile Phones, is expected to take the browser war to a new level. Though it is estimated that Firefox is one of the leaders in the PC based version of browsers and has around 25% share in the browser market, it is a laggard in the mobile phone browser segment. The increasing use of mobile phones to access the internet is focring the web-browser companies to provide a customised mobile version. It is this area which Mozilla is attempting to target with its Fennec - the Mozilla Firefox Web browser for Mobile Phones
What will be new features in Fennec?
Fennec - the Mozilla Firefox Web browser for Mobile Phones, is expected to have all the usual features of a standard web browser and along with that it is also learnt that it will include touchscreen support (a growing area for touch screen mobile phones), pop-up blockers (which is not available commonly in phone browsers) and also tabbed-browsing for easy accessibility.
Who are the competitors to Fennec - the Mozilla Firefox Web browser for Mobile Phones
The existing market is clearly dominated by Opera (the Opera Mini Browser) for Mobile phones. Then comes Safari (from Apple), followed by Nokia, iTouch and the others like BlackBerry, Android, etc.
The market for web browsers is big and fast changing. It hardly took a year for Google to get a significant market chare for its Chrome Browser. Let's see what unique features Fennec has to offer, once it is released.
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