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Firefox for mobile needs to be available for Windows Mobile 6.X, not just iPhone and Android!

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zippy47710
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Firefox mobile is only available for iPhone and Android, both are limited markets. Windows Mobile 6.X and higher is the only type of phone I have used for over a decade. iPhone's are only available on AT&T or Verizon's service. I have Sprint, although Sprint has Android or Windows Mobile 7 phones, those phone OS' do not meet my needs. This is where an older version is better, for me. It's also RIDICULOUS to have to upgrade to a higher Firefox for Windows just to give feedback. I tried Firefox 4.x, and it was TERRIBLE.

Firefox mobile is only available for iPhone and Android, both are limited markets. Windows Mobile 6.X and higher is the only type of phone I have used for over a decade. iPhone's are only available on AT&T or Verizon's service. I have Sprint, although Sprint has Android or Windows Mobile 7 phones, those phone OS' do not meet my needs. This is where an older version is better, for me. It's also RIDICULOUS to have to upgrade to a higher Firefox for Windows just to give feedback. I tried Firefox 4.x, and it was TERRIBLE.

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James
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Firefox mobile is only for Android 2.2+ (with ARM v7 type of cpu) and Maemo.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms#Other_Platforms 

Windows Mobile
   Firefox has stopped development for Windows Mobile indefinitely. Thank you to our contributors for their continued support and feedback. The last release for Windows Mobile was 1.1 alpha 1 (download). If Microsoft releases a native development kit for Windows Phone 7, we will consider developing Fennec on the Windows platform again. 



iPhone/iPad/iPod
   We have no plans to release the full Firefox browser for iOS. The iOS SDK agreement requires apps to use Apple's own JavaScript engine (or none at all, like Opera Mini which downloads pre-rendered pages from Opera's servers and cannot run JavaScript code in the client). Because of this, we have no supported way to distribute Firefox's rendering and JavaScript engine to iPhone users. 
   However, you can download Firefox Home for iPhone, an iOS app that uses Firefox Sync to deliver Firefox bookmarks, browsing history, and tabs to your iPhone or iPod Touch.


Android is a fast growing market both on phones and tablets now days.

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