Mozilla snubs Android

BIG CHEESES at the Mozzarella Foundation have decided not to bother with making Firefox Mobile work with the bright and shiny Google Android.

Instead the cunning plan is to produce a Linux native edition of Firebadger Mobile for the Nokia Internet Tablet.

After that it will look at producing versions for touchscreen and non-touchscreen editions of Windows Mobile.

Mozzarella's director of mobile engineering Christian Sejersen said that he was spurning Android as if it were a rabid dog and there were no plans for port Firefox Mobile to it "now or in the near future".

Symbian, on the other hand, will be next up after Windows Mobile versions are up and running.

Those who were hoping that the Iphone might get a look-in are also doomed. Firefox is deemed evil in the sight of Steve Jobs and has been cast into outer darkness which is the fate of all software that is useful, free and can't be controlled by Steve.

Jobs has declared that Firebadger violates Apple's primary SDK rule of no third party duplication of core Iphone functionality. µ

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