Fennec 1.0 Alpha 2 for Windows Mobile Still Very Picky About Devices it Runs On

The latest test releases of Fennec 1.0 Beta 2 for Maemo and Fennec 1.0 Alpha 2 for Windows Mobile (Mozilla browser) were announced in this Pavlov.net blog item…

New Fennec Releases

This release focuses on improving the user experience, increasing performance, redesigned Add-on installation and improved the download manager.

I read the…

Fennec Windows Mobile Alpha 2 Release Notes

The notes didn’t say anything about the extremely restricted device compatibility found in the previous alpha release so I downloaded it and installed it on an HTC TyTn Windows Mobile Professional Edition (touch screen) device. Unfortunately, it looks like Fennec is still very picky about which device it will run on as you can see from the error message in the screenshot above that showed up a couple of minutes after I tried to run Fennec.

Keeping in mind that this is still an alpha release, I’ll keep trying Fennec as new releases appear.

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