Mozilla
is working on a mobile version of its Firefox web browser, according to the
company's vice president of engineering.
"People ask us all the time about what Mozilla is going to do about the
mobile web, and I am very excited to announce that we plan to rock it," Mike
Schroepfer said on his
Schrep
blog.
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"We are serious about bringing the Firefox experience and technology to
mobile devices."
Schroepfer claimed that Mozilla's entry to the mobile world would help mould
what is currently a "fragmented" platform.
"Bringing Firefox add-ons, the Mozilla platform (including XUL), open source,
and a large and passionate community to the closed and fragmented mobile
platform will do the world some serious good," he said.
Schroepfer added that it is time to act because mobile devices outsell
computers 20 to one, and a large portion of the world now accesses the internet
on the move.
However, he stressed that Firefox already had some space in the mobile
market.
"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," he said.
As part of Mozilla's plans, Schroepfer said that mobile devices will be added
to the first class, or tier-one, platform set for Mozilla2.
"This means we will make core platform decisions with mobile devices as
first-class citizens," he said.
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