This flirts with being "off topic", but I looked at the Off Topic forum and those items were WAY off topic. So here goes ... don't bother flaming me if you think this is ridiculous, everybody ... save your breath and your energy for a fight that really matters.
I have been toying with the idea of getting a BlackBerry Curve as my next mobile phone / etc. device.
One of the characteristics of the Curve (and other BlackBerries, from what I can tell) that is commonly, even universally, bashed is its Web browser ... apparently it really stinks. Of course, the BlackBerries are mainly thought of as e-mail devices, but that's really no excuse these days. Any device of this caliber should be able to provide a quality UI to the Web.
Could / should / would it be possible / practical to get Firefox Portable to operate on a BlackBerry, specifically the Curve, for Web browsing? What would the obstacles be to making this work (work well)?
Care to tackle this challenge, John?
Jeff Miller
Moved to off topic by moderator JTH
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Blackberry's, like ALL mobile phones, do NOT run the Windows operating system. (Side Note: "Windows Mobile" is not Windows either and it won't run Windows apps like Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, etc). There is no version of Firefox for BlackBerry's operating system at all.
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It is still to the development phase, and not publicly available, if there is even something usable right now.
You can run Opera mini on the BlackBerry but to be honest, the BlackBerry browser is not that bad. I prefer it to Opera.
I prefer Opera mini over the BlackBerry browser any day.
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