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Mozilla in talks with carriers about mobile Firefox

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 29 February 2008 - 14:24 · 12 comments & 9585 views

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Mozilla is in informal talks with mobile operators about its mobile Firefox project, which the organization hopes will shake up the market as much as the introduction of the desktop browser did in 2004. "Mozilla's mission is to break open a closed market," said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's vice president of engineering, during a visit to London earlier this week. But "it won't happen overnight."

The impact, however, will be felt before year's end. By then, Mozilla is aiming to release a mobile browser for two operating systems: embedded Linux and Microsoft's Windows Mobile. At this point, operators and carriers "want to know how much it will cost," Schroepfer said. That's an easy answer: mobile Firefox will be free, Schroepfer said.

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(2 replies) #1 RealFduch on 29 Feb 2008 - 14:30
"Mozilla's mission is to break open a closed market,"

Yeah. Just like they did with their non standard-compliant browser which (unlike IE) cannot be "hacked" to behave properly.
They just broke open the future of efficient data-oriented web.
#1.1 MrA on 29 Feb 2008 - 17:37
I don't know if that was sarcasm or not. If not, then... wow.
#1.2 NeoTrunks on 02 Mar 2008 - 21:43
(MrA said @ #1.1)
I don't know if that was sarcasm or not. If not, then... wow.


Yup, that's definitely OUT there lol.
#2 Tuffgong4 on 29 Feb 2008 - 15:30
Please please please please release this or a beta!!!!!
(1 reply) #3 Sevan on 29 Feb 2008 - 15:46
What is this going to be for? Windows Mobile?
#3.1 +Smigit on 29 Feb 2008 - 17:15
The impact, however, will be felt before year's end. By then, Mozilla is aiming to release a mobile browser for two operating systems: embedded Linux and Microsoft's Windows Mobile.


I believe embeded Linux would cover Symbian too
#4 MulletRobZ on 01 Mar 2008 - 05:56
I wonder if Mozilla will consider doing Firefox for the iPhone sometime in the near future.
#5 Lare2 on 01 Mar 2008 - 07:13
I love Firefox on the Desktop, but IMO it isn't competition to Opera on that market.
#6 Angel Blue01 on 01 Mar 2008 - 13:34
Gecko is too big to be ported over I'd think
#7 JJ_ on 01 Mar 2008 - 15:56
This is music to my ears, I just hope they had thought about this much before. I can't wait to rid my PDA of the bundled Internet Exploder and bring some life into it!
#8 em_te on 01 Mar 2008 - 16:29
But mobile phones don't have 500MB+ of RAM.
#9 deadite66 on 02 Mar 2008 - 09:09
nokia phones already use webkit which is open source so i don't see the need for firefox to wade in.

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