Mozilla has been steadily creeping toward its goal of releasing the first firefox browser for mobile phones. On friday 1.0 for Nokia's Maemo-previously code-named fennec-arrived.
firefox for the Maemo 5 platform has a few interesting conceits that set it apart from other mobile browsers, like Opera mobile and Opera mini. Mozilla is banking on the uniqueness of its claim to fame-third-party, customizable browser extensions-to help its browser win mobile market share. Add-on, after all, helped make firefox the top browser alternative to internet explorer in the desktop space. To punctuate the importance of Add-ons for Firefox's mobile browser, mozilla also pushed out on friday the general release of its bookmark and history-syncing extension, weave sync 1.0, for both besktop and mobile.
Mozilla's accomplishment with a mobile version of Firefox is a mixed one, and not only because Maemo is a platform releatively few people have heard of. Nokia's open-source, Linux-based Maemo operting system supports mobile Firefox on just two devices-the N900 and the N810, an internet tablet. To make matters more limited, just two daysago Mozilla unveiled a third release candidate with a last-minute decision to pull wholesale support for Adobe's flash plug-in from the build, citing unhappiness with the overall standard of quality.
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