Mozilla has released the first release candidate of Firefox for Maemo aka Firefox Mobile. This release was expected before christmas but that did not happen did it.  Nokia N900 and N810 are supported devices. If you’ve been running the beta, they say RC1 is more polished and that text rendering has improved.

Firefox Mobile for Maemo is available for downloads for Nokia N900 the new features in 1.0 release includes:

  • Awesome Bar, which is pretty popular in the desktop version
  • Easy access to several search engines.
  • Touch Oriented user interface
  • Obstruction less browsing with auto hiding of controls and awesome bar, along with quick zoom
  • One-touch bookmarking
  • Tabbed browsing
  • Synchronization with Weave
  • Support for add-ons. Right now there are 40 add-ons available for downloads
  • Password manager, popup blocker, instant website ID and more.

You can easily download Firefox Mobile RC1 for mobiles here on your Nokia N900. Firefox Fennec for Mobile is also available for desktop downloads, click on the links below to choose the downloads for your appropriate OS.

Users who are already using the Beta 5 version of Firefox for Mobile will automatically be prompted for the update.

Here is a video explaining the various features that Firefox Mobile brings