Firefox Goes Mobile
August 12th, 2008 by Dana Wollman
Given that Firefox has over 160 million active users, we’re surprised Mozilla’s taken so long to release a mobile version. Finally, the company is releasing Firefox for mobile, its first browser for phones, codename Fennec. It incorporates Firefox 3’s browsing engine and will become available for Windows Mobile and Linux phones worldwide at the end of the year. We asked Jay Sullivan, who oversees the project in Mozilla’s labs, to give us the scoop.
LAPTOP: Why is Firefox just now entering the mobile broswer space?
JAY SULLIVAN: The devices and the networks are getting to the point where you can have a complete and compelling browsing experience on phones. And that hasn’t been the case up until the last six months to a year, in terms of hardware, the speed of the networks, the screens. The timing is good.
