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what's going on everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here and i want to give you a very early sneak preview of a new browser for android devices in a few other mobile platforms called fennec it's brought to you by the same guys that made firefox and thunderbird and a ton of other fantastic open source applications of course I'm talking about the development team at Mozilla so the idea behind fennec is it's going to bring the Firefox experience to your mobile device meaning you're going to get the ability to add plugins and add-ons that's going to increase the functionality usability and customization of your mobile device go ahead and launch it up here there is the icon it's called fennec it looks almost like a baby Firefox but go ahead and launch it up and we really with the fennec Start screen looks very similar to any other browser start treating you may have seen hoger I notice a definite lack of button the navigation options you've got a favicon in the upper left and a refresh button the right and that's about it fennec uses screen real estate very nicely let me show you how if I take my finger and I scroll over to left I now get a list of open tabs I can open up a ton of tabs that will show themselves right here and I can create new ones simply by hitting the plus button down below I can go ahead and go off to any other page that I would like now if I also want to go back to other bookmarks I can scroll over to the right let me back Adam I go over to the right now I get a star which you may be familiar with from Firefox you get a back or forward buttons if you had viewed other pages and more interesting when you get the Settings icon I'm going to go ahead and show you right here take your typical web browser setttings you get show images enable javascript cookies passwords dressed up business ah but what makes this platform most interesting is this last tab right here which shows you what your add-ons are and whether or not you can serve add additional functionality so actually are decent amount of add-ons already available for a platform that's still in very early alpha so you've got you two been a blur so enable flash video for youtube a rapport de fennec Twix bar post Twitter directly from your address bar you can have a weave bookmark sync & sinker bookmarks across your different devices there's a lot of functionality that these add-ons are going to bring so if you use firefox plugins and add-ons it's going to be a very welcome addition to you we've seen fennec for other mobile devices we've seen it for a few of the nokia devices I believe we've seen it on windows mobile first time we've seen it on Android and it's definitely early early alpha so the first question I got knife and I thought of when i was first using this was does it support flash and the answer isn't it sounding no it does not yet support flash and i'll show you in just a minute I go to a website like flash calm the content will unfortunately not load up so here is flash calm you got that very familiar flash is not present on your mobile device download here and there really isn't a download to have flash enabled now I'm using this on the HTC droid incredible which natively does support flash how are the fennec browser does not a navigation do this is actually still very rudimentary sing as it's a very early alpha build no multi-touch there's no pinch to zoom for anything if you want to zoom in you have two very closely DoubleTap make sure you're not tapping on a link double tap again to zoom out and that is really the only sort of navigation that you get other than your finger although I will eventually assume that we will see multi-touch support and flash enabled when this becomes a beta and a release candidate but for right now it's a very early alpha and you lose a lot of the browser functionality I certainly could not use this as my daily browser right now but does show the potential of the fennec platform potential the add-ons and what it could bring you know down the road so what do you guys think about fennec are you excited about the add-ons or think they don't have much of a place in a mobile platform you use add-ons on firefox do not use add-ons or plugins I'm very curious to what you guys have to say if you are an Android user pretty much you've got a droid incredible or a nexus one or a droid you can go ahead and download fennec i'll put a link in the underbar or on technobuffalo and go ahead and give this download just go to your mobile browser and download it alright guys hope you enjoyed and jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo and i will see you in the next video bye bye