Mozilla has adopted two real Firefox cubs (aka red panda cubs) which live at Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee. Mozilla has set up a dedicated website to track the progress of the Firefox cubs. You can watch them on webcam and follow them on Twitter. When Firefox 4 hits its next download target, Mozilla plans to reward Cub Number One and Cub Number Two with a jungle gym to play in. Quick! Get downloading, the Firefox cubs are depending on you!
Out now | £free | Firefox Cubs
Morning all! It’s the start of another working week alas, but look on the bright side: it does mean that a whole lot more breaking gadget news is about to come rolling in too. Catch up with everything else you missed in the meantime right here in your techie breakie.
The Firefox 4 Android and Firefox 4 Maemo apps have popped out of their alpha chrysalises and taken flight as beautiful beta butterflies. The app is up for grabs from Mozilla right now, packing Firefox Sync to keep your desktop and phone favourites in perfect harmony, support for add-ons, the Awesome Bar and pinch-to-zoom for multitouch phones. The Mozilla blog has all the features detailed in full and you can grab the app at the link below.
Out now | £free | Mozilla
Meet the Mozilla Seabird! This concept device is the product of the Firefox maker’s Open Web Concept Phone Project and created by seasoned concept creator Billy May. It’s the mystery device that was showcased in an ad during Jimmy Fallon’s show on US TV and that we all had some much fun speculating about. Typically, a bunch of brilliant Electricpig readers predicted that the mystery machine was the Mozilla Seabird. We salute you and celebrate your cleverness with a Mozilla Seabird video and details after the break…
The very first Firefox 4 public beta made a surprise splash online last night, giving the world’s most popular Internet Explorer rival its biggest update in two years. Naturally we grabbed it to give it a go just as soon as, and we’re willing to bet plenty of you have too – so how are you finding it?
Nintendo dropped a bombshell today with the first official word of a true sequel to the DS, but that’s not all that went down in gadgetry this morning: read on for all the headlines condensed, right here in the lunchtime lowdown.
Firefox for Windows Mobile has been abandoned and work on a version of Firefox for Windows Phone 7 has been put on hold by Mozilla. Microsoft’s decision to restrict Windows Phone 7 apps to Silverlight and XNA was seemingly the final straw for the Mozilla folk working on Firefox for Windows Mobile.
