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Mozilla Mobile Browser May Appear In Alpha Within Weeks

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imageThere’s a ton of attention on mobile browsers right now, as companies try and figure out the best way to render full web sites on small screens. Opera, Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Skyfire, Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) Safari, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and others are all throwing their hat into the ring. And now, despite an early report saying that Mozilla was still a couple of years away from completing a Firefox browser for mobile, the CEO suggested otherwise, saying that “we’ll see some alphas in a few weeks.” The interview with Mozilla’s CEO John Lilly appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Sept. 25, but people are just noticing it today, meaning the early-stage browsers could be due within a couple of weeks. Even though Mozilla is talking about making some progress in mobile, who knows when a fully baked product will arrive? Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker wrote on a blog just three days before Baker’s interview appeared that it may take until 2010 to build “an effective product in the mobile market” that “demonstrates that mobile is part of one, unified, open web.”

Oct 7, 2008 3:47 PM ET

Posted In: Technologies / Formats, Browsers, Companies, Apple, Google, Microsoft, mozilla

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