Some might argue that the path they are going on is opposite of the Mozilla ideals
https://plus.google.com/106978520009932034644/posts/L8FJkrcahPs > On Sep 20, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Valentin Gosu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > This may have come up before, but if not I think it would be a great > path to pursue. > > In case you haven't heard, Cyanogen Mod, the popular Android custom > ROM, has recently become a company and has announced that it has a > deal with an OEM to ship the Cyanogen-flavor of Android by default on > their phone. > http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/a_new_chapter > > This seems to me as an interesting opportunity for Mobile Firefox. Our > greatest problem so far is that Firefox for Android does not ship with > Android. Although it's possibly the best mobile browser out there, > Chrome or "Browser" often get more action simply because it's already > installed and ready to go. > > What we need right now, is for Mozilla to officially contact Cyanogen > and offer this partnership. Not only is it great for us, but it's also > good for the Cyanogen community. Even if we get Firefox to be > installed alongside another browser, it would still be a big win. > > Some of the advantages of Firefox for Android, as I see it: > - It works on ARMv6 > - It works on versions of Android older than 4.0 > - It doesn't try to automatically log me in to Google. (privacy sensitive) > - It's completely Open Source (Chrome for Android isn't quite there) > > I can see a few issues with this strategy: > - The OEM partner might not agree with this for some reason > - Google might try to force Cyanogen out of this plan > > Please CC anyone who would have a say in this. I would really like to > get Firefox with my next nightly build of Cyanogen :D > > Thanks, > Valentin > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev
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