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 Send to email | Why Firefox Is Thinking Small: Mobile Browser Market To Explode in SNOKTGOOGAAPL |  By Silicon
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 Firefox parent Mozilla is hard at work shrinking its Web browser software to work on mobile phones. So far, it's available in a very early edition for some Nokia (NOK) gadgets, with the first "alpha" release scheduled for August, DailyTech reports.
Why bother? Because the high end of the mobile browser market, where Mozilla will operate, is poised to explode in the next six years, according to a report published today by ABI Research.
ABI sees "open-Internet" browsers, like Firefox and Opera, soaring to 700 million units delivered worldwide in 2013, 820% more than the 76 million delivered last year. (These "open-Internet" browsers support more sophisticated Web technologies like AJAX, CSS, etc., unlike the crappy browsers available on most mobile phones.)
The upside for companies like Mozilla: If they can get deals
from cellphone makers/carriers to get pre-loaded onto phones, and/or companies like Google (GOOG), which pays them to be the default
search engine on their PC-based browsers, the mobile market could be
very lucrative.
What's driving growth? Cool smartphones like Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, which have demonstrated to consumers that they can get a decent Web experience on a small screen if they have a powerful Web browser. The proof: Almost 85% of iPhone owners browse the Web on their phones, versus 13.1% of the overall U.S. mobile market, according to research firm M:Metrics.
A better browser market is also good news for carriers like AT&T (T), Verizon Wireless, and Sprint Nextel (S). The more subscribers that want to use the mobile Web, the better. As consumers spend less money on cellphone calls, the carriers are looking to grow by selling mobile data products, like all-you-can-eat mobile Web access.
See Also:
Apple's iPhone, Smartphones To Kill The Mobile 'Deck'
Firefox Coming To Phones: Good News For Carriers
Apple's iPhone Drives Huge Increase in Mobile Web, Video, Music Usage
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| Firefox Mobile Still Over a Year Away? Maybe Not |  Remember the great concept video of Firefox Mobile we showed you? The one that had us oh so excited for a Mozilla-powered browser experience on our mobiles? Well it might just be the most you see of the highly-anticipated mobile browser for quite a while unfortunately. According to The Register’s interpretation of some comments made [...]
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| Turn FireFox 3 Into A Blogging Toolbox |  Today Jeff Chandler shares with us how FireFox 3 can be a great tool for bloggers.
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| First screenshots of Firefox Mobile for Windows Mobile |  Just last week we got word that a Firefox Mobile alpha version might be coming down the pipe a lot sooner than expected. Low and behold, screen shots have been leaked. As many could have guessed, the first version we are seeing is sitting pretty atop Windows Mobile. Sure we would love to see Firefox [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Oct-2008 by Zach Epstein in SoftwareWindows MobileFennecFirefoxmobileScreenshots
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| Firefox Mobile is weeks away from alpha |  Codenamed Fennec, Firefox Mobile is probably one of the most eagerly anticipated mobile apps around. We’ve seen the concept video and it looks awesome yet we know it will be even more game-changing once a release version emerges. While said release version is likely still relatively far off into the future, it now looks as [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 07-Oct-2008 by Zach Epstein in RumorsSoftwarebrowserFirefoxinternetmobile
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