Re: Firefox and Ubuntu touch ?

Chris Coulson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.seamonkey
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On 20/02/15 03:14, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
> Ubuntu for Phone is built around Qt porting Firefox would be a lot of work
> and maintaining it even more energy. Canonical already has built
> a browser around Chromium and AFAIK they are still planning for
> mobile to converge with desktop at which point I assume that
> browser will replace Firefox as the default.
I don't think that has even been discussed yet, and if it ever happens
then it's going to be a very long way off. There's still a significant
amount of work to do to make it a useful desktop browser and it's not
something that anyone is focused on right now AFAIK.

Regards
- Chris
(Lead developer of the web engine library on Ubuntu phone)

>
> Oxide/Ubuntu Web Browser:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Oxide/BuildInstructions
> http://www.iwillfolo.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Ubuntu-14.10-web-browser.jpg
> (Screenshot of Oxide running on Ubuntu Desktop)
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Doug Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It’s probably not that hard to get something up and running quick.  It will be much harder to make something wonderful to use.
>>
>> I look forward to someone trying to tackle this port.  If you’re that person, happy to discuss technical details.
>>
>> Doug Turner
>> Someone who’s ported to many 0.0% market share mobile platforms.
>>
>>> On Feb 2, 2015, at 4:59 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I love firefox and I'm using it from the beginning. The problem is : I'm a ubuntu user and I would like to continue using all this stuff when Mir is released. And It would be great to have it on Ubuntu Touch too. It would be very usefull to be able to sync.  [-o<
>>>
>>> Anyway,
>>> "bonne journée à tous"
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