It’s Official! Firefox Mobile
October 10, 2007
Are you excited? It’s just been announced. There were a plenty of rumors regarding Firefox Mobile and now it’s official. Mozilla are developing Firefox for mobile phone which should be released till the end of this year. Like original Firefox it will be open-source software and that means a lot to developers and users as well. As for now there are still not many details known, Firefox Mobile will be able to run Firefox extensions on the mobile phone and the fact that many people already joined Mozilla in order to help build the best mobile web browser.
Should Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, iPhone Web Browser and Microsoft Deepfish developers be worried already?
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Let’s see: Safari for iPhone is locked to, well, the iPhone, which doesn’t let you install third-party applications. And Opera Mini (and to an extent Deepfish) is aimed at low-end devices that can’t run a full browser. So I’d say that no, they don’t have anything to worry about.
Opera Mobile, perhaps. Either way, we’re looking at a year or two out, because this initiative is tied to the Mozilla2 overhaul, which means it’ll be either contemporary with or after Firefox 4.
Of course, that also means that the average phone, by the time this comes out, may be able to handle full browsers like Opera Mobile, so things like Deepfish and Opera Mini might be on their way out. It’s hard to say.
@Kelson: The important thing that keeps me on opera is data compression, so I don’t think I’ll be using a “full” browser by that time, unless it will provide high data compression and keep my bills low.
worry? no…the more browsers the better- less lock in and vendor specifics is better for all mobile users.
That said, let’s not completely forget about Minimo- they already tried once.
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