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Mozilla: Firefox for mobile phones is coming
We've known Mozilla had big plans for the mobile space for a while now. But we were a bit disappointed when Mozilla announced their first major Mobile offering back in August. Joey is basically just a web clipping service that lets you save web content using your desktop Firefox browser and access it from any old mobile browser. We were hoping to see a mobile version of Firefox.Well, sometimes dreams do come true. Mozilla's Mike Schroepfer writes on his blog that work is underway to create a version of Firefox for mobile phones. There aren't a ton of details yet, but here's what we can tell you:
- Mozilla is adding mobile devices to the list of "first-class" development platforms
- Mobile Firefox will be able to run Firefox extensions on mobile devices and allow third party development via XUL
- Mozilla is expanding its team of mobile contributors
- Development on Joey will continue
- Don't expect further Minimo development
- Mobile Firefox will ship after Firefox 3
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C said 11:56AM on 10-10-2007
Uh...Minimo???
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/releases/arm/0.1/
I thought that had been available for a while?
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Brad Linder said 11:57AM on 10-10-2007
Minimo was an experimental browser based on Mozilla. It was never very fast or stable. We're talking about a full-fledged Firefox web browser for mobile devices complete with support for Firefox extensions.
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Aalaap said 2:12PM on 10-10-2007
I'd love to see a Java MIDP 2.0 version of Firefox for my Samsung SGH-U600. It's not something unwishable - I've been using Opera Mini for months now...
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DagMX said 8:44AM on 10-11-2007
I dont think this would take off too well.
For one, firefox isn't the most memory efficient browser and memory is a huge commodity in phones.
Secondly, most smartphones usually have a really good browser preinstalled in the likes of Opera Mobile etc...
Thirdly, if they choose to do it in Java, Opera is a huge competitor to stand against as Opera probably has the best cross-platform structure.
Not to say it will fail, but I think its not really a good idea.
Also while extensions seem like a good idea, again it goes back to the memory limitations of phones. Especially on smartphones where the OS itself is so memory hungry.
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silvia said 1:51PM on 10-15-2007
don't know if it will beat opera though
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David said 3:23PM on 10-30-2007
I would love to have mozilla do a version of firefox on my iphone rather than safari.. i know it would be soo much better!!!
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daadir said 9:33AM on 1-04-2008
VERY gud
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