We have had contact with them previously, but our getting set up / tested / ensuring we hit the quality we expect was not worth the potential reward when we last assessed the opportunity. I can take another look now that we've gotten further along in some areas and see how it compares to the other opportunities we're pursuing (in terms of limited resources and, therefore, the big Prioritization discussion)
Thanks, Valentin, for bringing this up again. Of course if we have contributors who can help find issues and resolve some, that would also be helpful :) Karen -----Original Message----- From: mobile-firefox-dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Valentin Gosu Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 5:12 PM To: Aaron Train Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Shipping Firefox as the default browser on Cyanogen In a reddit IAmA they say that they still value openness very much. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mnnc6/we_are_steve_cyanogen_kondik_ and_koushik_koush/ I think that if they're to stay open they need partners such as Mozilla. Even if nothing will come of this, it's still an option worth exploring. On 20 September 2013 23:19, Aaron Train <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ mobile-firefox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev
