Although Mozilla abandoned development for Windows Phone, it seems the efforts have pressed on for Android. Yesterday, Vladimir Vukićević posted on his blog the availability of the beta. It looks like this build is purely for the hardcore folks as it has been dubbed “pre-alphaâ€. For those that don’t know what that means, simply put, really early!
For everyone else here are some caveats that are listed
- We’ve only really tested this on the Motorola Droid and the Nexus One.
- It will likely not eat your phone, but bugs might cause your phone to stop responding, requiring a reboot.
- Memory usage of this build isn’t great — in many ways it’s a debug build, and we haven’t really done a lot of optimization yet. This could cause some problems with large pages, especially on low memory devices like the Droid.
- You’ll see the app exit and relaunch on first start, as well as on add-on installs; this is a quirk of our install process, and we’re working to get rid of it.
- You can’t open links from other apps using Fennec; we should have this for the next build.
- This build requires Android 2.0 or above, and likely an OpenGL ES 2.0 capable device.
- This build must be installed to internal memory, not to a SD card.
If after reading this you are ready to press on then here you go
scan this with your phone and it will take you to the download. This may be a good time to take a look at Brent’s article on backing up your Android.