Mozilla is wrapping up work on its first version of Fire fox for mobile phones, an important step in bringing the second most popular PC browser to an area where a rival project holds more influence.
"Our goal is to have a release candidate next week," said Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's vice president of mobile. "If things go smoothly, we'll have a (final) version out in the next few weeks," with the debut planned for this year, he added.
Mozilla has been a leader in advancing the Web state of the art. But when it comes to the mobile phones, where the power of a new generation of hardware has transformed browsers from primitive afterthoughts to useful tools, Firefox has been missing in action.
Instead, an open-source project called WebKit powers the browser on the higher-end mobile phones du jour--Apple's iPhone, the PalmPre, and Motorola's Droid and other models running Google's Android operating system, with BlackBerry headed that direction, too.
I think it is vital for both Apple and Palm to offer the use of 3rd party browers to ensure people feel like they have the flexibility, Also Apple need to be able to offer the ability to allow people to set any 3rd party browser as the default browsers.
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