Mozilla will release a mobile version of Firefox
Community Mozilla.org plans to release the mobile version of browser Firefox.
Vice-president emphasizes that now many users log in the Internet from portable devices. Besides the sales volume of mobile devices in twenty times surpasses a sales volume of personal computers. At the same time, Firefox for today is the most popular browser with the open initial code. The quantity of loadings of the given software product recently has exceeded 400 million.
It is supposed that support of mobile devices will be added in structure Mozilla2 - the second version of a program platform on which it is constructed Firefox. Users of the mobile version of a browser can load and establish expansions, and foreign developers will have an opportunity to create additions with application XUL, expanded language of the description of the user interface.
The presentation of final updating Firefox 3 should take place or in the end of it, or in the beginning of next year. Not clearly also, on what portable devices will work Mobile Firefox.
It is necessary to notice that the browser on the basis of code Mozilla was developed for portable devices within the limits of project Minimo (in abbreviated form from Mini Mozilla). Last updating of the given product with an index 0.2, intended for use on devices under control of Windows Mobile 5.0, was issued in March of this year. According to Mike Shrepfera, Minimo was a pilot project, and to develop it in the further it is not planned.