This has been pretty silent and smooth. Mozilla quietly slipped out an RC1 of the Firefox’s avatar built specially for the Maemo (Nokia N900 and Nokia N810).

Firefox RC1 for Maemo aka Mozilla Fennec is claimed to give you a glitch free, full multimedia enabled browsing experience on Maemo. It strives to make you forget about the clunky, stripped-down versions of the conventional mobile web.

According to Pavlov, a software engineer at Mozilla, Firefox’s Maemo has some significant improvements like

» Enhanced text rendering

» New hooks for add-on developers

» Fixes to some N900 related issues

» Available in more than 30 languages

» More eye candy

Image Courtesy: Unwired

Other notable features of Fennec:

» Password manager

» Tabbed browsing,

» One-touch bookmarking

» Geo-location based browsing

» Desktop syncing

TechExplorer verdict: If you are using Maemo (Nokia N900 or Nokia N810) there is no reason why you shouldn’t use Fennec. We definitely recommend it.

Update: Mozilla Fennec RC2 released. If you are running RC1, you will get an update shortly. You can manually install it by clicking the link below.

Download Mozilla Fennec RC1 RC2 for Maemo