Mozilla Fennec continues its slow march towards general release. Yesterday, Mozilla released Fennec 1.0 beta 4 for Maemo. This latest release brings a number of new features to improve the user experience and the browser interface. These include:
- Improved touch-friendly theme
- Improved panning and zooming performance and behavior
- Add search providers from the site identity panel
- Manage search providers from the Add-ons Manager
- Simplified the Download Manager (removed searching and find file on disk)
- Streamlined the bookmarking process
- Simplified the bookmark management
- Popup notification when background tabs open
- Bookmark list now displays the URL and tags associated with a bookmark
- Added a product information page (about:fennec or use the button in Preferences)
- Support for add-ons options in the Add-on Manager
- Support for updating add-ons
- Support for the HandheldFriendly meta-tag (support for the viewport meta-tag is coming)
- A number of bug fixes
Fennec also runs nicely on the Nokia N900 according to the development team.
Aside from being available for the Nokia N810 and N900 (download here), desktop builds are also available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.