Mozilla focuses on mobile browsing
With the current ratio of 20-1 (mobile phones to PC), more people are accessing the Internet through their phones. Soon, we will have large numbers of users turning to mobile for their daily surfing need. The iPhone/iTouch ships with Mac’s native browser Safari, but it has some limitations and glitches. On Windows mobile powered phones, their have their I.E. which IMHO doesn’t really do you any good in terms of security. Opera already has a mobile version of their browser, although has only a few users. A post from the company’s blog:
Why increase Mozilla’s presence in mobile?
You can already get a Mozilla-based browser for the Nokia N800 and Firefox is a key part of Ubuntu Mobile and the new Intel Internet Project, and most recently ARM has put serious effort towards Firefox on mobile devices.Just what are we announcing?
Mozilla will add mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla2. This means we will make core platform decisions with mobile devices as first-class citizens. We will ship a version of “Mobile Firefox” which can, among other things, run Firefox extensions on mobile devices and allow others to build rich applications via XUL.When?
As mentioned above, Mozilla browsers are already available to N800 users and you can use Joey today to extend your Firefox desktop browsing experience to your phone. We’ll continue to invest in Joey and will work closely with partners who want to ship Mozilla browsers today. Mobile Firefox will arrive later (certainly not before 2008).Does this mean that Firefox 3 will run on my phone?
No. This project is focused on Mozilla technology that will ship after Firefox 3. We’re at least as excited as you about getting Mozilla’s great web capabilities into your hands, literally, but it’s a big undertaking, and won’t be something that we can wrap up in time for Firefox 3.
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