Firefox Mobile Headed for Android OS?

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can we get it for the iphone? I was looking forward to getting ff mobile on my old win mobile phone but i had to switch carriers :(
 
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iPhone? LOL, Apple won't allow it because Safari is the BEST! So glad I bought a Droid...
 

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[citation][nom]soark[/nom]And for iPhone?[/citation]
Firefox for iPhone
We do not have plans to build an iPhone browser due to constraints with the OS environment and distribution.

Straight from Mozilla
 

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I don't get it when they said, "Although the Firefox Mobile team has successfully launched the application on an Android-based phone, currently it's not able to surf the Internet." HUH? What did it do when they launched it? Isn't that the basic thing you want it to do!?
 

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[citation][nom]quantum mask[/nom]I don't get it when they said, "Although the Firefox Mobile team has successfully launched the application on an Android-based phone, currently it's not able to surf the Internet." HUH? What did it do when they launched it? Isn't that the basic thing you want it to do!?[/citation]

I suppose what he meant to say was that "yes it works but it does not WORK"...
 

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Basically, if an app lauches, it means that its code can compile and be loaded (think Windows Me).

Making it perform its primary task then entails:
- running the loaded machine code in a way that doesn't crash
- accessing the hardware or APIs needed to perform its task.
I would guess that Firefox loads, but it may either crash, hang, timeout or return an error when accessing the phone's TCP/IP stack. Moreover, said stack must be complete enough (provide required ports, DNS resolving etc.) for Fx to perform its task properly.
 
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