If you use a Google Android mobile phone but miss your favorite web browser "Mozilla Firefox" in it, here is a great news for you.
Mozilla has started working on a mobile version of Mozilla Firefox for Android.
Firefox requires Android 2.1 or later and an ARMv7 processor. Installation requires about 17 MB internal or SD card storage. Firefox runs best on devices with at least 512 MB of RAM.
These devices are compatible with Firefox:
- Acer Iconia Tab A500
- Acer Liquid, Liquid A1 (untested)
- Advent Vega (P10AN01)
- Archos 101 Internet Tablet (untested)
- Barnes&Noble Nook Color (root required)
- Dell Streak, Streak 7
- HTC Desire
- HTC Desire S
- HTC Desire HD (AT&T Inspire 4G)
- HTC Droid Incredible/HTC Droid Incredible 2
- HTC EVO 4G, EVO Shift 4G
- HTC Flyer
- HTC Glacier (T-Mobile myTouch 4G)
- HTC Incredible S
- HTC Inspire 4G (untested)
- HTC Nexus One
- HTC Sensation
- HTC Thunderbolt 4G
- Huawei Ideos S7
- LG Optimus 2X
- LG Optimus Black (P970)
- LG Optimus Z
- Motorola Atrix 4G
- Motorola Bravo
- Motorola Cliq 2
- Motorola Defy
- Motorola Droid 2, Droid 2 Global
- Motorola Droid Pro (Motorola PRO)
- Motorola Droid X
- Motorola Xoom
- POV Mobii Tegra Tablet
- Samsung Continuum (i400)
- Samsung Droid Charge
- Samsung Galaxy S (i9000, Captivate, Fascinate, Vibrant, Epic 4G)
- Samsung Galaxy S 4G (untested)
- Samsung Galaxy S II
- Samsung Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1
- Samsung Infuse 4G (untested)
- Samsung Nexus S
- Samsung T-Mobile Sidekick 4G (untested)
- Samsung 4G LTE SCH-i520/Inspiration/Droid Charge/Stealth V
- Sharp Galapagos 003SH, 005SH
- Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
- Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
- Viewsonic gTablet
The following devices have compatible hardware, but may have software problems when running Firefox. These bugs may be fixed in future versions:
- Acer Liquid E - Firefox crashes on startup with Android 2.1 (bug 637424)
- Asus Eee Pad Transformer - Some problems with the hardware keyboard
- Motorola Charm - does not have the suggested amount of RAM.
- Motorola Droid 1 (Milestone XT720) - does not meet requirements
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 - does not have the suggested amount of RAM (384Mb).
These devices have ARMv6 processors and are not compatible with Firefox for Android:
- Android SDK emulator
- Asus Garmin nuvifone A50 (T-Mobile Garminfone)
- Augen GENTouch 78 Tablet
- Coby Kyros Internet Tablet (MID7015)
- Geeksphone One, Geeksphone Zero
- HTC Aria
- HTC ChaCha
- HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1, Android Dev Phone 1)
- HTC Droid Eris
- HTC Espresso (T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide)
- HTC Hero (T-Mobile G2 Touch)
- HTC Legend
- HTC Magic (T-Mobile myTouch 3G, T-Mobile G1 Touch)
- HTC Salsa
- HTC Tattoo
- HTC Wildfire
- Huawei Ascend
- Huawei Ideos U8150-B (T-Mobile Comet)
- Huawei U8110 (T-Mobile Pulse Mini)
- Huawei U8230
- LG Ally (Apex) (LG VS740)
- LG GW620 (Eve, InTouch Max, LinkMe)
- LG Optimus, Optimus M, Optimus T, Optimus S, Optimus V
- LG Vortex
- MAG iMiTO iM7
- MAG iMiTO iM7S
- Motorola Backflip
- Motorola Citrus
- Motorola Cliq (MB200)
- Motorola Dext
- Motorola Devour
- Motorola i1
- Motorola Spice XT300
- Motorola Quench XT5 XT502
- Pandigital Novel
- Samsung Behold, Behold 2
- Samsung GT-S5570 Galaxy Mini
- Samsung i5500 Galaxy 5 (Corby)
- Samsung i5700 Galaxy Portal (Spica)
- Samsung i5800 Galaxy 3
- Samsung i7500 Galaxy
- Samsung Intercept
- Samsung M900 Moment
- Samsung S5830 Galaxy Ace
- Samsung Transform
- Sanyo ZIO M6000
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X8
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro
- Superpad 10.2" Tablet PC
- Viewsonic ViewPad 7 Tablet
- Velocity Micro T103 Cruz tablet
- Vodafone 845
- ZTE Blade / San Francisco
- ZTE Light / V9
More details, known bugs, system requirements, future plans, etc can be read at Mozilla wiki.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Mobile Phones, Mozilla Firefox.
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Leomate
I think Firefox Mobile want to make competition with Opera Mini. Hope Firefox Mobile created for another plaform Such as Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Java apps and another system that i cant listed in here.
madhucraj
very good
JACQUELINE G.
I can't download it goes to app. Geyser don't understand what the problem is i have sprint LG optimus and it wont download certain apps anyone that can me on this one?
TONY
Let's. We if. It will. Work.