Firefox web browser going mobile
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 10, 2007 at 3:20pm
Mozilla has set up a group to develop the Firefox web browser for mobile devices, hiring new staff and elevating the priority of the work to the same level as desktop computers. Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, announced the mobile Firefox move on his blog Tuesday evening (as noted by CNET.)
“We are serious about bringing the Firefox experience and technology to mobile devices,” he said. “Bringing Firefox add-ons, the Mozilla platform, open source, and a large and passionate community to the closed and fragmented mobile platform will do the world some serious good.”
Schroepfer says Mozilla will:
° Add mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla2.
° Ship a version of “Mobile Firefox” which can, among other things, run Firefox extensions on mobile devices and allow others to build rich applications via XUL.
° Expand its small team of full-time mobile contributors to focus on the technology and application needs of mobile devices.
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