Mobile Newsletter – Week of December 2nd 2011

Welcome Firefox Mobile testers!
Our goal is to provide you with mobile news and guidance towards how and where you as a tester can help out!

This Week’s Headlines!

• Readability improvements

• User Agent switcher – allows for fetching desktop version of web sites

• Viewport support : web page no longer wider for pages that use viewport

• General panning and zooming improvements with more to follow

• Features to look at now: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/NightlyFeatures

What’s New in Fennec Native UI< this week?

• Readability improvements

• draft of about:home

• console.log support in logcat

• user agents – allows for mimicking desktop web site

• viewport support : web page no longer wider for pages that use viewport

In Other News:

• 11/30: Mobile Test Drivers Kick Off!

• 11/30: Extremetech reviews Native Fennec – and the WebAPIs running on it

What’s coming soon to Fennec on Android?

• recommended addons from AMO support

• double tap zoom

• remodelled about:home

• And more!

How to download the latest Fennec Native UI build:

• Enable ‘Unknown sources’ in Settings | Application Settings on your Android device

• Go to: http://nightly.mozilla.org

• Click and download the Android installer under the mobile section

Testing Areas, Tips and Tricks:

• Head to your favorite sites and file bugs on sites that do not work or don’t meet your expectations

• Download the Zippity Addon: http://people.mozilla.com/~mfinkle/fennec/addons/testharness-mobile.xpi and go to about:testharness to perform various tests

• Explore away with testing these features https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/NightlyFeatures

• Nightly builds now support Flash (on Android 2.3 and Android 2.2)

• Note: you will need to download and have installed the latest version of the Flash Player from the Android Market

We want to hear from you!

• If you discover a bug, please file it in Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org) under the product: “Fennec Native”, or just follow this link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fennec%20Native. If you need assistance, feel free to message this mailing list: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platforms-mobile

• Any feedback on the newsletter can go to: Naoki at nhirata@mozilla.com

• To subscribe, please go to https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/android-mobile-nightly-testers

Til next time,
The Mobile QA Team

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