Firefox For Mobiles Coming Soon?

May 14th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Filed Under: Everton • Mobile & Telecoms

Tags: Email, Firefox, Gmail, Google, Mobile, Mobile News, Mozilla, N95, Nokia, Smartphones, SMS, Symbian, texting

According to Gadgetell, Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker confirmed in a recent interview that Mozilla are working on a mobile version of Firefox.

Although, this would be a very cool application and I’m sure I’ll have a play around with Firefox Mobile when it appears, I’m very happy with the browser that is bundled with my Nokia N95.  The latest Symbian internet browser is very fast and reproduces pages very well.

My number one mobile application at the moment is the java version of gmail. It is so easy to use, and combined with the hotkeys I actually find the mobile version of gmail easier to use than the web version.  It is ultra-fast and because the java version of gmail support predictive texting, I’m finding that I’m now sending as many emails from my Nokia N95 as SMSs.

Another Google app that I find works better on my mobile than on my PC is Google Reader. I don’t know why, but I find the layout quicker to navigate and what I tend to do is ’star’ items to be read later when I can sit down and relax.  My only complaint about the mobile version of Google Reader is that when Google tries to open webpages I find the optimisation it applies to pages to make them web-friendly really poor, and I wish they’d just let the Nokia N95’s inbuilt browser take care of it.

What apps do you love on your mobile or would like to see ported over to your mobile?

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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   Comment by green on 14 May 2007:

   This is a good news, i will check it out when released.
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   Comment by Product Reviews on 14 May 2007:

   I moved over to Firefox about 6 months ago and I cannot understand why I waited so long, Firefox is so much better than IE.
   This is good news that Firefox is coming to mobile phones and I am looking forward to when it is released.
   Just need a better mobile now.
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   Comment by Vijeesh on 14 May 2007:

   Hi Everton,

   The last part of this same Mitchell Baker interview is quite an interesting read..
   Firefox working on Web 3.0, which means web applications that run offline from your browser.

   Wouldn’t that be great? I mean, I can work on documents/sheets offline, and that too without installing software like MS Office. Your browser will be able to handle files like the present-day Office suite.
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   Comment by listikal on 14 May 2007:

   Unfortunately most non-Verizon based smart phones don’t support these applications such as Firefox and the GMail client. Verizon is still the best though.
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   Comment by Zath on 15 May 2007:

   I was just thinking whilst using IE Mobile on my SPV E650 that I wonder why Mozilla didn’t do a mobile version and then I read this!

   I’ve not any real complaints as yet about IE Mobile, but would be interested to see what Mozilla come up with.

   For some reason I can’t get the java version of GMail working on my E650, even though it worked on the C500 - I wonder if there’s something I need to unlock somewhere - it tells me there isn’t a valid security certificate and promptly stops trying to work!
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   Comment by Suresh Patel on 2 June 2007:

   I cant my my spv e650 to work either, I get the same certificate issueas you, any one found a solution?
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   Comment by Howard on 13 June 2007:

   If your phone supports it, there’s the Minimo [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/] web browser for PDA’s/cellular handsets. It’s based on Firefox code although it’s not an official fork of the Mozilla project - it’s a project [by Mozilla contributor Doug Turner] that’s being hosted by the Mozilla Foundation.
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   Comment by Everton on 13 June 2007:

   Thanks Howard - I think I’ll give that a go. Does it work on S60 V3?
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   Comment by Howard on 14 June 2007:

   Everton, not sure about specific cellular handsets as it only mentions it’s compatible with Windows Mobile platform 4.2 and above. It is downloadable as both a cabinet file [*.CAB] ad as an executable to run on Windows for extraction to your handset.

   It does mention in the user FAQ’s - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/FAQ.html - the source can also be compiled as well for different handsets.

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