When it comes to web surfing we have many choices. From the windows native internet explorer, to the Mac native safari. In between we have opera, Firefox, chrome, and oh safari even has a windows variant...Good going apple. Now when it comes to mobile? Each Os has the corresponding variant, windows phone of course has internet explorer, ios mobile safari. Android has a native unnamed browser, but if you're blessed with ics you can download beta chrome mobile. In between there is Firefox mobile, opera mobile in two flavors actually. Dolphin, which is also in 2 flavors...the lesser known skyfire and many smaller branded web browsers.
But which browser is for you? Aren't all browsers the same? They take us on the internet? Stream our videos, download our applications, music and other such things. Well today I came here to focus more on the once great Mozilla Firefox. Is seems lately that Firefox has released updates for a failing browser, we're up to version 12? Version 12!!! We just were graced with 10 a few months ago what can you possibly be releasing so often? And for the mobile browser its so sub par. I remember years ago Firefox was the nations go to browser, I guess the release of chrome dethroned them. As a matter of fact Mozilla in general was the go to developer for email clients and web browsing experience. Chrome and the chrome store with its build has taken a nice chunk into that. Even safari in windows has made a difference in what browsers we all use.
More about mobile Firefox. I haven't downloaded it in quite awhile so ill keep my critical comments to a minimum. But when flash officially landed on android, skyfire and opera supported flash plugins early, then the development and release of dolphin happened and out of the gate they supported flash within the browser. I remember when I first purchased my evo, the sole reason I wanted it was flash support, and I was so stoked to download Firefox on it. And once I did....no flash support. I remember being so disappointed in the legendary desktop browser not properly transitioning into its mobile greatness. The browser was clunky, somewaht unresponsive. And for the life of me I couldn't grasp the thought of why Mozilla had a stable and a beta release in the market at all times. The beta didn't support flash either. ... I speak on all of this because recently Mozilla spoke on transitioning to building apps on html5 code. I believe this is a beautiful idea, but at the rate they release apps? I want them to take their time on whatever they decide to build. I don't understand how this once great team rushes their greatness? I can't wait for their first line of Apps be it android, or ios.
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