Looks like Opera ^[1] were not the only people working this New Year to release Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha ^[2], the folks at Mozilla did some work too, and finally released ^[3] the RC1 for Firefox Mobile ^[4], which was supposed to be released in December ^[5].

Firefox Mobile for Maemo is available for downloads for Nokia N900 ^[6], 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.

These are just some of the features available in the browser, for more, visit the release page ^[4]. You can download Firefox Mobile RC1 for mobiles by visiting Firefox.com/m ^[7] on your Nokia N900 ^[8]. FF for Mobile is also available as desktop downloads, click on the links below to choose the downloads for your appropriate OS. (links below will initiate automatic downloads)

• Windows ^[9]
• Mac OS X ^[10]
• Linux ^[11]

Users who are already using the Beta 5 version of Firefox Mobile will be promoted to download an update.

Note: Screenshots used in the post are taken using the desktop version of Firefox Mobile for Windows

P.S. If you are a Nokia N900 ^[8] user please share some screenshots with us of Firefox Mobile in action, we will credit you of course :-)