Mozilla releases Firefox for Maemo beta 5

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About a month after the fourth beta, Mozilla has released a fifth beta of its upcoming Firefox for Maemo browser (also known as Fennec). The latest beta comes with the following changes:

  • Enabled official branding, with Firefox name and logo
  • Support for localizations, currently including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Russian
  • Enabled plugins
  • Viewport meta tag support
  • Fixed a number of sites that resize their content after the page is loaded
  • Added a form assistant to make filling forms easier
  • Improved panning performance and behavior
  • Zooming doesn’t jump around anymore
  • Numerous other bugs and polish issues addressed

Firefox for Maemo is available for the Nokia N810 and N900 (download here). Desktop builds are also available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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