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Well, I doubt if any other platform that Mozilla made Firefox for had to ask them before they did it.

There is nothing stopping any third party from making any app for Touch, I guess it depends on whether they think it viable as a worthwhile project.

By the way Mozilla also has Firefox OS on the mobile front as a competitor to Touch. They would have to also decide if its a risk worth taking......

Firefox is still default on the desktop Ubuntu so I guess a Touch port would be welcome on mobile as well. 

Its all a question of opportunity costs of such a project for any party

-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Ribalkin <ribalkin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Joshua Anderson <ander02342@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Why isn't Ubuntu-Phone using Firefox Mobile?

Hi,

Maybe instead of porting themselves, Canonical could ask Mozilla. Then
there will be a chance to get help from Firefox community (me being part of
it).

I really like Ubuntu phone and waiting for the moment when I could make it
my primary phone os.

Thanks.
On Oct 12, 2013 10:54 PM, "Joshua Anderson" <ander02342@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> There are several reasons that Ubuntu isn't using Firefox mobile. The
> primary reason is that Firefox mobile can't run on Ubuntu phone. Firefox
> mobile is for android, and could not be ported without significant effort
> to Ubuntu phone. Also, while I have not tried Firefox mobile, I haven't
> heard many people say good things about it. Chrome for android couldn't run
> on Ubuntu phone for the same reasons listed above. So, instead of the
> painful porting process, Ubuntu decided to make a WebKit based browser that
> uses the Ubuntu phone ui style and takes advantages of the platforms
> features.
>
> -Joshua Anderson
> On Oct 12, 2013 11:40 AM, "Greg W" <mttbrnsmls@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Why is Ubuntu-Phone developing its own mobile web browser? Doesn't it
>> make more sense to use Firefox Mobile?
>>
>> I like Firefox because it is more customizable and embraces Open-Source
>> more fully than Google/Chromium. Firefox/Mozilla also does a lot more to
>> protect user Privacy.
>>
>> On an aside, I wish Ubuntu was more active with respect to protecting
>> user privacy in the software choices it makes. It seems that the "design
>> research" Ubuntu/Canonical does affords Privacy little weight in the
>> analysis of things, certainly much less than I would like (as of late).
>>
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