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Mozilla Firefox on Android still a few months away

by on January 29, 2010 5:23 am
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According to a German Mozilla community website, the mobile version of the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser Fennec, may be due to arrive on Android in February 2010. The German speaking website camp-firefox.de reported that a first beta version of Firefox for Android is functioning and that most of the critical work has been overcome. However, they may be slightly ahead of themselves here.

Jay Sullivan (and friends), VP Mobile at Mozilla, announced the information at the weekly labs meeting held a few nights ago. Despite the fact that Fennec allegedly has much of the work already under its belt, there is still ambiguity as to whether things will take longer than one month. Indeed, there are some conflicting reports on whether February will bring with it an Alpha version for Android, or whether this will just mark the begging. It is likely that a few more months will be needed to bring the browser to fruition for an Alpha release. Indeed, Mozilla workers themselves have taken to the stage and admitted as such. If you are interested in following the progress of Mozilla on Android, visit this link here.

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Comments
  • Roberto Tomás

    You guys always make a point of linking Tizen with Samsung. As far as I know, Tizen is as open source as the Linux kernel. If I’m wrong, I’d like to read an article about it!

    Samsung might be positioning itself to be in the same position with Tizen or a Tizen variant that Google is with Android, but to my knowledge there are no equivalents at tizen.org to the front page links to google on the android.com web page, and Samsung doesn’t set the release pace.

    • Ivan Budiutama

      From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen

      “Tizen is an operating system for devices including smartphones, tablets, in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) devices, and smart TVs. It’s an open sourcesystem that aims to offer a consistent user experience across devices. Its main components are the Linux kernel and the WebKit runtime. The Tizen project resides within the Linux Foundation and is governed by a Technical Steering Group (TSG) composed of Intel and Samsung.”

      • RarestName

        Wikipedia is so reliable.

      • Roberto Tomás

        exactly. thank you

  • CyBrix_21

    Next: IE OS

    Safari OS
    Opera OS

    • MasterMuffin

      IE Os ad: “IE Os sucks… less!” :D

    • RarestName

      Chrome OS. Oh wait…

      • CyBrix_21

        There is Chrome OS already… Although it is not for mobile…

        • RarestName

          I know that. I was joking, hence the “Oh, wait…” :)

          • CyBrix_21

            Yes.. Hahaha…

  • Ankit

    Samsung’s decision was obvious, having thrown their weight behind tizen.

  • l3elivE

    FireFox os looks just plain stupid…
    Ubuntu is the way to go!

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