After a couple of experience in mobile market, Mozilla Corp is planning to bridge the desktop and mobile browsing experience by allowing bookmarks, history, extensions and other Firefox capabilities on mobile devices.
Mozilla is planning to include mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla 2, the company’s open source Internet application suit, which comes with a web browser, e-mail and newsgroup client.
Mozilla is also rolling out a version of Mobile Firefox, which can run Firefox extensions on mobile devices. Developers would be able to develop to build rich applications for Mobile Firefox using extensible user-interface language (XUL), a markup language based on XML.
As a part of company’s strategy, the company is hiring small team of full-time employees to focus on mobile technology and applications from testing to user interface design.
Mozilla browsers are already available on Nokia N800 smartphones. Mozilla is also offering mini Firefox browser, Minimo to its users with a variety of Windows Mobile based smartphones. With Joey service, Firefox brings web content to mobile devices. Joey service allows users to use Firefox to send text clippings, pictures, videos, RSS content and live bookmarks to their phone and accessed on the phone’s web-browser.
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