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Need Firefox for Windows Phone.

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Ryker Abel
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Simply, Need Firefox for Windows Phone.

Simply, Need Firefox for Windows Phone.

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Paul
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Hi

With Microsoft halting further work on this platform, and the relatively low number of users compared to Android and iOS, it seems unlikely that Firefox will be made available for that platform in the near future.

Ryker Abel
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People keep saying that, for the past 10 years, and yet some of us still use Windows Phones. Not all of us want to kowtow to the Google overlords and if we go to iPhone there is no point in bothering with Firefox.

James
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Does it really make sense to use up a lot of resources to make a complex application for a OS that has had ever decreasing low number of users and Microsoft recently admitting is essentially dead in development.

When Mozilla originally started on mobile browser development it was with Minimo and here for the then Windows mobile OS's until development was stopped officially back in November 2007.

Also a main reason for no mobile browser development for any Windows mobile OS's in last years was following the Windows Phone 7 announcement and Microsoft's decision not to release a native development kit, as with Android and other systems, development for Windows Mobile was put on hold as was mentioned here

In 2008 they felt it would be much more worthwhile to make a mobile Firefox for Android instead codenamed Fennec.

The only other mobile OS they have been working with in recent time has been Firefox for iOS even though due to Apple's restrictions it is basically a shell in using Apple's Webkit rendering engine.

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Ryker Abel
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It is Mozilla's product to do as they wish. They can ignore faithful users all they want. My only intent was to state a request. I already knew the why, so I did not need a condescending explanation of why Mozilla is not producing a browser for Windows Phone (which is still in development such as my Alcatel Idol 4s with Windows 10 and HP Elite X3) No matter, ARM tablets are getting true Windows 10 with compiled compatibility already and the phones will soon follow with full Windows and then I can install the Windows Desktop version of Firefox. In the meantime I've switched my enterprise to MS Edge anyway for simpler management with Active Directory (Chrome is manageable by AD too).