Mozilla to (eventually) develop Firefox for mobile phones

by Brad Linder May 9th 2007

APC Magazine has an intriguing interview with Mozilla Foundation CEO Mitchell Baker on the state of mobile web browsers and Mozilla's plans to develop a mobile version of Firefox.

Baker says developers are working on a mobile browser, but says it's a long term goal and nothing users should expect to see anytime soon. While the Minimo project is based on Mozilla, it isn't an official product and it's still a few (dozen) steps behind Opera Mobile when it comes to speed and performance.

Baker says some of the things people like most about Firefox are add-ons and the ability to customize the browser, which are things Mozilla would want to bring to a mobile version. One of the main challenges is bringing the full web experience to a small screen. An experiment, called Joey, is currently underway to look at ways to deliver information to mobile devices.

It'll be interesting to see how a mobile version of Firefox would stack up to Opera Moile, which already includes tabbed browsing, and even some AJAX support.

[via Opera Watch]

Tags: firefox, mobile, mobile browser, mobile phone, MobileBrowser, MobilePhone, opera, web browser, WebBrowser

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

eBusiness said 8:59AM on 5-09-2007

This is a step in the right direction we need to insure that quality developers are working on interface design for mobile phones because what we have now is @#!%.

danut butucaru said 1:54PM on 5-10-2007

Molto contento!Piacere!

Merzouk said 8:31AM on 5-25-2007

Slim

arnaldo Morales said 10:00PM on 6-01-2007

I nwould like to have DICCIONARY inglish/spanish

arnaldo Morales said 11:52PM on 6-01-2007

It really works

arnaldo Morales said 11:53PM on 6-01-2007

it really works

arnaldo Morales said 11:55PM on 6-01-2007

How can I get translation english language to spanish

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