Fans of the popular open source browser Firefox will be happy to hear that the Mozilla team has started development of their mobile browser, Fennec, specifically for Android based tablets.

The aim of the team is to release Fennec, together with Firefox 8, and provide a TabletUI, working with Android tablets using Honeycomb (or higher). The work page already includes links to UI mockups, which we added below.

Firefox Fennec for Tablets - Honeycomb: Fullscreen browsing

Work is on-going and the crew hopes to be able to release the final UI early in the development cycle of Firefox 8, which is scheduled for this year.

Enjoy more mockup images after the jump.

Firefox Fennec for Tablets - Honeycomb

Firefox Fennec for Tablets - Honeycomb: Open Windows Left

Firefox Fennec for Tablets - Honeycomb: Open Windows Right

Firefox Fennec for Tablets - Honeycomb: Top Browser Tabs

Firefox Fennec for Tablets - Honeycomb: Awesome Bar and Keyboard

Be sure to visit ianbarlow_work‘s and Brian The Designer‘s Flickr accounts as they contain more high quality and great mockups.

All fans of Android tablets will definitely look forward to Fennec with optimized UI for Honeycomb.

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