Mozilla, mobile and browsers
My name is Christian Sejersen and as you might have guessed from the title “Hej” I am from Denmark. I started working at Mozilla in October where I am heading up the engineering efforts for mobile (I’ll blog more on that later, so stay tuned!) including setting up an R&D office in Copenhagen with primary focus on bringing Mozilla technology to mobile devices.
To find out more about my background you can check my LinkedIn profile.
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Hi,
Interesting work, but I have a very hard time to understand the choice of prioritized platforms. WM is really the dark side. And there are almost no phones in reality on Linux, and those that do exist is absurdely enough not at all open (except for a few odd ones in China and pure developer phones like OpenMoko). By the way, that goes for Google Android too.
The only really relevant platform to start with should be Symbian. And perhaps especially UIQ. The volumes are not there yet, but it does need a better browser. Opera has done a lousy job for UIQ. On S60, the webkit browser is quite good.
I also think UIQ is based close to Copenhagen, so a co-operation should be easy.
//jorge
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting!
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:
very interesting.
i’m adding in RSS Reader
Hi. I would like to know if Firefox for Mobile will be usable on a desktop computer. That would allow aging computers to remain usable, since the alternatives for a light-weight browser are usually limited (for instance, Dillo is very light and fast but doesn’t support CCS positionning, so it’s difficult to understand pages).
@Emmmanuel:
As you might have seen in Mobile Goals we are not targeting desktop computers, but it could be an interesting project for someone to look at.
Are there any plans for a mobile version of Thunderbird? The email experience on mobile devices could be improved as well.
@Harald:
You should get in touch with David Ascher who is heading up Mozilla Messaging.
You write:
“As many people will quickly notice there is no Symbian version here. We are aware of the millions of Symbian devices in the world and this is just a start and a good area to focus. We’d love help on Symbian if anyone is interested.”
I am really sorry to say that, but you definitely focus on the wrong OS. I love Linux on desktops and servers, but on smartphones, it’simply unimportant at the moment. So I am very, very, very disappointed that there will be no version of Firefox mobile for Symbian. You seem to underestimate Symbian’s importance on smartphones, especially on business smartphones! There are only a few non-experimental Linux smartphones. They are all still useless for productive business purposes. On the other side, there are many, many, many Symbian business smartphones, probably even more than Windows Mobile smartphones! As you seem to know that there are “millions of Symbian devices”, why don’t you focus on them instead of Linux?
Alex
@Alex: We haven’t decided whether to do a Symbian version or not yet, so please stay tuned.
Wow, I really expected a post with some information in it other than just one sentence with a link to another. It is a shame when the only comment is longer than the post.
@Water Damage Guy: I am not sure I understand your comment. Is it related to comment 11?
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Velkommen hjem !