Recently today, an interesting trail of breadcrumbs came out on an interview with Matt Brubeck (Firefox Mobile, Head Developer) pertaining to the future of Firefox as a mobile browsers on Apple iOS and Android. As some of you may already know, Firefox has its own Firefox application on the app store but you can’t really call it as a browser but rather, an extension only to sync your bookmarks from your PC to your mobile. What was being talk about in this ‘possible’ project was a fully functional Firefox browser much like Skyfire.
At the later part of the interview, Matt answered that it will be a browser alright but it won’t be in any relation with Firefox just because Apple’s iOS rules forbid developers to use other compilers / debuggers aside from the one it is recommending for developers, making its impossible for Firefox developers to deliver a near-like representation of the desktop browser experience on mobile.
Here’s the excerpt:
“Mozilla could create a browser that did one of those things, but it wouldn’t be related to Firefox in any way,”
But even that’s the case, there’s a light of possibility especially if we’re only talking about jailbreak methods to get this browser application.
“Unless Apple removes these restrictions, Mozilla will not spend time and money on this project.” So if they are working on it, they’re doing so off-reservation.”
At this point, it’s not the most surprising thing to hear about a new browser on the app store, for all we know, we have the newly revealed SkyFire that can play flash apps and can do exactly almost all of the things any browser you have. If ever there’s a planned browser Mozilla is planning to do, it should better be boombastic!
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