It is a time of celebration for Firefox fans disappointed with the lackluster performance of Mozilla's mobile browser Minimo; all thanks to its cleverly-named mobile browser project Fennec. That is, of course, if Mozilla can deliver on the promises made in Mitchell Baker's keynote speech at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, where she said, "Access to data, sites and applications on the internet shouldn't be limited by the type of device being used, and Fennec will make that possible."
Naturally, hope springs eternal for the Mozilla fanboy. But a point made by Baker during her speech seems to indicate they won't be disappointed: "While technical constraints affect mobile browsing, psychological constraints affect the experience on the PC, caused by usage habits formed over decades."
And they do indeed. Mobile browsers can take some getting used to for the less-than-tech-savvy, forcing users to change their deeply ingrained browsing habits. A mobile browser that eliminates (or at least reduces) this period of adaptation -- backed by the people at Mozilla and the open source set -- could throw open the doors of mobile Internet access to the throngs of people that don't yet know they need it.
Mozilla: Fennec to Revolutionize Mobile Browsing [Yahoo via Crave]
Photo of a fennec fox by Kuribo/Flickr
