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Mozilla must've wanted to show this now before Google I/O. They must know Google is making Chrome the default browser in Android 4.1 and beyond.



And Android 4.1 will get what Market penetration? Chrome already doesn't support the vast majority of phones out there, whereas this Firefox release does.

Chrome can't compete on phones it doesn't run on.


That's interesting. I used the default Android browser for like 2 minutes and I'm glad it will be gone. However, this will probably make it harder for Opera and Mozilla to compete. The next logical step for them would probably be to work with vendors (or at least mobile carriers) to have their browser installed by default. Opera used to do this with older phones, never saw it with Android (that does not mean it doesn't happen though).




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