The Mozilla team just announced a new version of ‘Fennec’, which is also known as Firefox for Maemo. The new version, Beta 5, includes several updates, listed below. It launches in seconds, rather than minutes, which is a first step towards usability.This new browser for the Nokia N900 is still somewhat slow, even over my home WiFi network, though the interface is much nicer than the built-in browser.

One cool thing about Firefox for Maemo is the Weave add-on, which allows you to synchronize information between your desktop and N900. This is one of the things that was missing in every one of the previous Maemo devices, you can have the ability to easily sync bookmarks and tabs with your device finally. The implementation is still somewhat buggy
Here’s the list of improvements from the Mozilla team:

•Firefox official branding, with Firefox name and logo
•Support for multiple locales, currently including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Russian
•Flash sites such as YouTube now work
•The viewport meta tag is now supported by Firefox on mobile sites using it
•New form assistant to make filling in forms easier
•Improved panning and zooming performance and behavior
•Numerous other bugs and polish issues addressed
Not bad, though I can’t help but wonder how many betas we’ll have before we get the finished product. You can get Firefox for Mobile installed on your N900 by going to
Code:
http://www.mozilla.com/m
in your device’s browser.