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hey guys its brand a minimun from pocket now calm and Mozilla just released the newest version of the Alpha a fennec for windows mobile that's their mobile web browser that's trying to be kind of like firefox on a mobile device and it's come a really long way it's still not perfect but let me go through what's changed and what's different and I think you'll actually be quite impressed with how this is shaping up so let's get closer in on the screen here we are on amazon.com and of course you can move your finger around to go around the page where you can tap on links now with fennec what you do to get to multiple tabs as you swipe your finger to the right then you get a tab menu here and right now I have three different tabs open if I tap on the second tab I will be taken to Hulu and it doesn't appear that this version of fennec will support flash it says who the requires flash player nine-point-oh or higher and if we swipe again to the left we can quickly close one of these tabs by just tapping on them in the upper left corner or we can add a new one by tapping the plus button and typing in a web address now speaking of typing in a web address when you tap on the address bar and here we go what you'll get is your recent history in addition you'll get this little bar along the bottom so that you can search right from google and it's kind of hard to see it's a little bit buggy right now but you can go to answers com if you swipe your finger to the right you saw ebay down there Wikipedia so this allows for really quick access to a Google search our Wikipedia search right from the address bar so let's wipe back to the right and go back to amazon now as we mentioned in the previous video about fennec you can actually view the security certificate information about this brap about this website just like you would on the desktop version of Mozilla Firefox if we want to add this to our favorites there's a little tiny button over here and we've already done that and here's our bookmarks menu I've already am it added amazon.com to this folder if we tap on manage we get a more granular view of our bookmarks we can close out some them if we want to delete a new folder that I made earlier or you can make a new folder completely put a bunch of them into the same folder and go from there now swiping to the right and its really interesting how Mozilla has made use of the limited space on a small screen device swiping to the right will bring out the forward and back button although I think this should have been placed up here somewhere plus the favorite button and just like Firefox on the desktop if you tap on the star a filled-in star means that it's a favorite but a hollow star means it's not and down here we have the Settings button so let's go into that now now by far one of the coolest features that's going to be in fennec when it's released as a full version is the ability to add on extensions if you're running firefox you probably have multiple extensions loaded that will customize the browsing experience so for example imagine having x marks which is a program that synchronizes all your bookmarks and all your passwords load it on your mobile device so you could have your facebook password your banking password anything that you want to take with you right on your device right now the plugins are very limited in fact there are only four under the recommended tab there's a Twitter plug-in there's one for scripting and one for fixing URLs if you tap on search you get a search bar though I've tried searching for certain ones like like x marks for example so i type x marks and it actually searches as you type and you're going to see that it comes up with no matches so i'm not sure if mozilla has in mind that all of the extensions on firefox desktop will be available on the mobile version or only if certain ones will be certified we'll have to find out more about that later so let's continue in the settings here if we go to the down button or the down arrow this is a download manager that lets you sort by date site name and you can actually search through them and finally down here there's a little Settings icon and this lets you change certain settings let's zoom and I know it's a really small on the screen you can have it load images automatically enable javascript javascript chasing tracing you can turn on and off plugins because sometimes it may slow down your device privacy and security things about passwords being saved and cookies and private data you can clear it from there if your overall browsing experience is somewhat clunky it's usable definitely but it's not as refined as upper mobile 9.5 at this point because this is an early alpha release it'll be really interesting to see with how Mozilla continues to evolve fennec and we can't wait for a full release and the ability to have extensions and really bring that Firefox like experience to a mobile device and its really interesting how they've held leave innovated on a mobile device it's it's really different stuff that we're happy to see so that's it for fennec for more on this and for download links check us out at pocketnow.com that's it for now