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The mobile version of Firefox, Fennec, is “ready”. The first mobile version of the free browser will be presented very soon. Right now the last test is going on as explained Jay Sullivan, head of development at the Mozilla Foundation, told the BBC.

Presently, it will be available for the Nokia N900, but then also be used in other terminals. Fennec will synchronize with Firefox (the browser version for computers). That means any Web page to open the PC’s browser automatically opens in the version for mobiles. “At the end of the day you can go home and stay connected to your terminal,” said Sullivan.

Fennec will compete with other browsers such as Opera, Safari and Windows Mobile. The foundation aims to repeat the success that they have achieved with Firefox, the second in position and just behind the various versions of Internet Explorer (Microsoft).

The Mozilla Foundation has worked the past year and a half in the mobile version of browser, which incorporates many of the features of Firefox, including extensions, small programs that allow the browser to add a news reader or a game.

Fennec can be downloaded from the Mozilla website and from Ovi, Nokia’s shop. It is developing a version for Windows Mobile, the mobile operating system from Microsoft. At the moment there is no version for iPhone, due to restrictions of Apple, which only allows using browsers that use WebKit, the basis of its .