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Mozilla has released the first public beta of the mobile version of Firefox. Fennec beta 1 will run on Nokia N810 Internet Tablets, Windows, OS X, or Linux computers. A Windows Mobile version will be available later.

The newest build of Fennec features faster zooming, panning, and start-up times. It also users Mozilla's TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, allows for editing of bookmarks and use of bookmark folders. And perhaps most exciting, this is the first version to add support for plugins. There aren't very many compatible plugins yet, but that will likely change in the coming months.

The first video below represents the Fennec walkthrough of Beta 1 and in the second one you can see some extensions for it (yes, they already exist):