Mozilla's mobile plans outlined: are Pocket IE's days numbered?

While we've heard bits and pieces of Mozilla's mobile plans in the past, today brings us the most defined overview yet. Listed out are the reasons why Mozilla will push heavily into mobile devices and what they plan to deliver: well worth the read. What's interesting to me is the several mentions of Intel; when you pair that up with the recent Intel talk of MIDs, well... let's just say the handwriting's on the wall here for a strategic partnership.

Mozilla plans to expand the mobile development team and will be taking the mobile experience into account much more prominently going forward. In fact, when they ship Mobile Firefox, you can expect support for Firefox extensions and synchronized bookmarks / history between Firefox on the desktop and your mobile device. Will this finally give the Pocket IE team a little nudge to beef up their app or is it a lost cause against an open source competitor? Remember Minimo?

Comments

[GoodThings2Life]

Hooray for Mobile Firefox! I think a release of it will be a good thing. I know Opera fanatics love Mobile Opera, but then again I think you have to be an Opera fanatic to like Opera.

Even so, competition is good.

[Scotty]

The FIAT of ebook readers, the Irex iLiad, comes with Mozilla's minimo browser. So far it hasn't exactly been inspirational with its ability to operate reliably on a restricted resource device.

They've definitely got a bit of work ahead of them.

[Ross Wirth]

This might actually make Firefox worth looking at. My problem with Firefox is that it's so much work to get it up and going, every single website you go to for the first month requires you to stop and download an extension or plug-in. That and the interface still looks a lot like Netscape 1. Just not impressed, I tried it shortly after IE7 came out when that was so unstable, has it improved since then?

[Stephen Feger]

OUTSTANDING!!!

This is so long overdue....