No Firefox for You, Android!

The Mozilla Foundation is hard at work on a mobile version of its Firefox web browser. This will be available for several different smartphone operating systems, but Android won't be one of them.

Jay Sullivan, vice president of mobile at Mozilla, told ABC News that one of Google's rules will prevent his company from creating an Android version of its web browser. Google requires all applications that are listed on the Android Market, the official software store for this operating system, to be written in Java. That isn't the programming language Mozilla wants to use.

More about Firefox Mobile

It will be months before the release of the mobile version of Firefox --code-named Fennec. It was only recently released as an alpha for testing and feedback purposes, and that only for Nokia Internet Tablets.

A version for Windows Mobile is also in development.

The development team is working hard to create a browser that will work well on a smartphone's relatively small screen. Users of Fennec will also be able to access their bookmarks and browsing history from the desktop version of Firefox.

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