Mozillla is today releasing a pre-alpah version of Fennec aka FirefoxMobile for Android for everybody to try it out:
Over the last few months, we’ve made some great progress on bringing Firefox to Android. Michael Wu, Brad Lassey, Alex Pakhotin and I have been focusing on getting a build ready that’s usable by a broader set of people, and we’re now ready to get that build out there. This build should be considered “pre-alpha”, so there are some warnings and caveats:
•We’ve only really tested this on the Motorola Droid and the Nexus One.
•It will likely not eat your phone, but bugs might cause your phone to stop responding, requiring a reboot.
•Memory usage of this build isn’t great — in many ways it’s a debug build, and we haven’t really done a lot of optimization yet. This could cause some problems with large pages, especially on low memory devices like the Droid.
•You’ll see the app exit and relaunch on first start, as well as on add-on installs; this is a quirk of our install process, and we’re working to get rid of it.
•You can’t open links from other apps using Fennec; we should have this for the next build.
•This build requires Android 2.0 or above, and likely an OpenGL ES 2.0 capable device.
•Edit: This build must be installed to internal memory, not to a SD card.
THe browser is obviously not available on the Android Market so you will have to hit this link via your phone browser to install it: http://bit.ly/fennec-android. Last month Mozilla announced that developement of the Windows Mobile version was halted because Windows Phone 7 doesn’t support developement of third-party native application.
Source: Mozilla
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