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[Filip Dorosz <filip.dorosz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bear in mind that Firefox for Android is... already ported for Android. 
Native Firefox for Linux would require more power so doing own browser 
on chromium was more suitable. (I believe its some kind of based on 
Chromium)

Z poważaniem,
Filip Dorosz

W dniu 24.04.2016 o 14:14, Chris Croome pisze:
> Hi
>
> On Sun 24-Apr-2016 at 01:26:16PM +0200, Filip Dorosz
> wrote:
> > Firefox is quite good example, it is heavy and while
> > porting it would be possible I believe it would not
> > suite small screen, would drain battery quickly etc.
>
> I have two Nexus 4's, one running Cyanogenmod and one
> running Ubuntu Touch and Firefox and Orfox run really well
> on Cyanogenmod and while there are not as many plugins
> available as for the desktop version there are some really
> good ones like uMatrix and you can tweak lots of things
> that there is no UI for via about:config (for example
> setting a socks proxy).
>
> So for me the screen size and hardware are not issues --
> if I could run Firefox on Ubuntu Touch I'd seriously
> consider ditching Android.
>
> All the best
>
> Chris