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Chances are you use Firefox, have a few extensions installed and if you’re really hardcore you probably have a Firefox shirt somewhere in your closet. The browser that swept the internet by storm is coming to your mobile. While no time table was given, here are a few things Mike Schroepfer (Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla) had to say:
- Christian Sejersen, recently the head of browsers at Openwave which has shipped over 1 billion mobile browsers, joined Mozilla Monday. He’ll be heading up the platform engineering effort and setting up a R&D center in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Brad Lassey just joined Mozilla from France Telecom R&D. He’s already been an active contributor to our mobile efforts and can now focus on Mozilla mobile full time.
- We will 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.
Too little too late? We will have to see. Something Mike pointed out is that by 2008 the processors in our smartphones will be close to an order of magnitude faster than what we currently have. Webkit is winning now because it is so light weight and flexible, will Mozilla be able to make a comeback?
[Via: Ajaxian]
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
