Installing Fennec (Firefox web browser for Mobile Phones) on Nokia N810

Installing Fennec (Firefox web browser for Mobile Phones) on Nokia N810

Fennec releases are provided as .deb packages and can be installed directly to your N810 from the Application Manager. But first, you’ll need to configure your Application Manager to look in the Mozilla repository. That’s easy to do and once you do it, you won’t need to worry about it again. Here is the quick information for setting up the Application Manager:

* Web Address: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/
* Distribution: chinook (Note: The chinook builds work on diablo as well.)
* Components: release

Here are the step-by-step instructions to Installing Fennec (Firefox web browser for Mobile Phones) on Nokia N810

* Open the Application Manager. You should see it listed under the Settings folder.

* You need to add the Mozilla repository to your list of catalogs. Choose “Application manager > Tools > Application catalog…” from the menu.

* You should see some application repositories already in the list. You need to add Mozilla’s, so press the New button. Here is the information you need to fill into the form so Mozilla’s repository is added to the catalog:

* After filling in the information and pressing OK, you can also Close the Catalog window. At this point, you should see the catalog list is being refreshed.

* You can now Browse installable applications from the main Application Manager window. You can choose All or Internet and Fennec should be listed as an installable application.

* Choose fennec and press the Install button (at the bottom of the screen). After some dialogs double check your desire to install this non-official software, the application will be downloaded and installed.

* After a successful installation, you can launch Fennec from the Extras folder