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Mozilla Stops Development on Windows Mobile Browsers

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Mar 23, 2010, 1:50 PM   by Philip Berne

Mozilla today confirmed that development on a mobile Firefox browser for the Windows Mobile platform, including Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series, has ceased. Mozilla reps told Phone Scoop that because Windows Phone 7 Series relies heavily on Silverlight and XNA for runtime environments, without giving developers access to the native code required to create a Firefox Mobile browser, development of a browser for Microsoft's mobile platforms has been put on hold. The company demonstrated a version of the Firefox Mobile browser running on the Maemo platform, and said that an Android version of the browser is in the Alpha stage.

source: Phone Scoop

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bluecoyote

Mar 23, 2010, 2:19 PM

Mozilla = Too little, too late

Look, I love Mozilla and I think Firefox is a nice browser, but their mobile efforts were too little too late. Webkit has cleaned up on iPhone, WebOS, Symbian, Android, and now Blackberry. The ONLY other option is now Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Opera.

There's not much of a future being an "also-ran" on Android to the built-in Webkit browser.
flip mode

Mar 23, 2010, 2:13 PM

yes!!!

i hope you can get all the plugins like on the desktop browser. such as FIND TOOLBAR TWEAK and all the downloader plugins. 😎 I love firefox..i've had it for a good few years now.
 
 
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