Pre-alpha screenshots reveal progress on Firefox for Android

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Mozilla's Firefox browser may not be available for Android yet, but they can prove they're working on it. Some screenshots of a pre-alpha version of the browser have slipped out, and they show the full Firefox interface instead of the mobile UI we've seen on Maemo devices. That will probably change, though, according to Moziilla developer Vladimir Vukićević. As you can see from the screenshot above, they're running the full Firefox UI right now to put the maximum strain on the Gecko rendering engine. If the full UI works in testing, the mobile version should have no problems.

As for progress on features, Vladimir reports that "mouse events sort of work, toplevel windows sort of work, keyboard doesn't work yet but shouldn't be hard to hook up. This is running in an emulator at the moment for ease of debugging, but it's working just fine on physical hardware as well." So, the Android version is in pre-alpha and the Windows Mobile version is in alpha, but there are no plans to bring to Firefox for Mobile to other platforms, according to Mozilla's wiki. Sorry, iPhone, BlackBerry and Symbian users!

[via AndroidCentral]

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