14 DAY TRIAL // Software company Mozilla is considering the release of a Symbian version of Firefox Home, thus making its solutions available on yet another mobile operating system out there, in addition to Android, iOS, Maemo or Windows Mobile.
Mozilla developer Ragavan Srinivasan was the one to break the news on the matter, via a recent tweet calling for developers interested in the area to give a sign.
“Any Symbian developers interested in working on a version of Firefox Home for Symbian? DM/Email me for details,” Ragavan Srinivasan said on Twitter (via The Register).
In case there are some new to the term Firefox Home, we should note that this is not a mobile browser, but a stand-alone version of Firefox Sync (a browser bookmark-syncing service that was launched under the name of Weave).
The solution is already available for the owners of an Apple iPhone, where it landed mainly due to the fact that no third-party browser engines were allowed on the device.
While not a browser in itself, the solution does enable users to access their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks, recent tabs, as well as the “Awesome bar,” which was designed to suggest sites based on browsing history.
In other words, the solution offers users the possibility to carry the Firefox browser along with them even without having the software installed on their devices, and this is what Mozilla might consider bringing to Symbian too.
The company already released a mobile application for one of Nokia's mobile platforms, Maemo, in the form of Firefox for Mobile, which later on became Fennec 2.0, currently available on Android too in an alpha flavor.
For what it's worth, the only mobile operating systems that might not taste Mozilla's love appear to be Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 (Windows Mobile 6.5 has a Fennec flavor available) and Palm's webOS, though we're not sure about the latter.
Palm Pre users can already get Firefox on their devices, provided that they run webOS 1.4.5, through a PreFox application, which is not officially supported by Mozilla.