Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu Touch? - Ubuntu Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, I just wondering if its planned to contact with Mozilla in order to try to get a version of Mozilla to ubuntu for phone and tablets, it would be great!

Nope . Inhouse browser webkit based. No more mozilla. :thumbup:
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macpherson1999 said:
Hi, I just wondering if its planned to contact with Mozilla in order to try to get a version of Mozilla to ubuntu for phone and tablets, it would be great!
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Mozilla's engineering efforts are probably too focused on their own phone OS at the moment to consider porting their browser to others.

mhall119 said:
Mozilla's engineering efforts are probably too focused on their own phone OS at the moment to consider porting their browser to others.
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I suppose so too. Default browser in ubuntu images for phone is made by Canonical? Is going to be the default browser insted of chromium, firefox or another browser that can appear?

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Qml qt firefox
As I am aware of Mozilla already has a coded app for Firefox Meego
which has the same luanguge although not built in ubuntus sdk it does run in qt qml.
I can be simply ported in a matter of weeks but I doubt
Cannonical will do so for ubuntu touch and mozilla is focused on other more established.platforms ill ask around gplus and nokia forums maybe we can have community members help to port it

Why
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when i type apt-get install firefox he install firefox but don't have any app and i didn't edit sources.list

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[Q] Internet Explorer on Android ?

Hello there,
I'm willing to buy an asus transformer tablet and I need to know if there is any possibility to run internet explorer on it, cause I need it for my job and all other browsers aren't fully compatible with the online system of my company. Thanks in advance
I don't believe it will ever be possible at all to run Internet Explorer on Android, specifically because it's Internet Explorer. I don't think you'll ever see it happen, sorry.
I would like more chrome google for android, but I do not think it is possible
Unlikely, Internet Explorer as a Microsoft product is only made for Windows Vista+ (XP is no longer supported as of IE9) and Windows Phone/Zune at this point. The Mac version was last supported up to IE 5.2.3. You could always use a browser that lets you change the user agent. My college forces use to use IE to log into their site, however, I managed to get in with Midori (as a linux user).
As for the Transformer, I have one of those my self and love it. I just want Dolphin Tab to improve (note: Dolphin DOES support the ability to change your user agent.
You could also use splashtop HD to connect to a home computer running windows and use IE from there, I did that to run Windows Developer Preview.
chrome lite is good
What if wine is ported to android"
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polaris441 said:
What if wine is ported to android"
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1258506
In my experience when I have ran into this Firefox has been accepted as an alternative to IE, but I know it wouldn't work every time.
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You will never get internet explorer on Android. Don't hold out for it.
You definitely can try using a browser that allows you to change the user agent, but be sure to test it on your current computer before buying android. Many IE-only websites won't display correctly (or at all) in other browsers, regardless of what the user agent is set to. Its unfortunately common.
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I need to use a particular website for work which requires IE browser and the closest I've got is with Firefox and adding an add on called Phony. Although the formatting isn't the best and i can't view some menu items due to this. So really is a pain and not much good in the scheme of things.
Why in hell would you want internet explorer????!! Q
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Long story short.
IE on android? No, not going to happen.
IE on windows on android, maybe.
stkfigure said:
Why in hell would you want internet explorer????!! Q
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Probably the multitude of people that have to use it because colleges and corporations require it.
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DarkenCypher said:
Probably the multitude of people that have to use it because colleges and corporations require it.
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Well, in that case they need to switch, I mean IE is only used to download other browsers
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I haven't tried this, but it should work
1.Download Dolphin Browser
2. go to Menu> More> Settings> Dolphin settings> User Agent>
3.click custom
4.enter
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0
or another useragent string(you can get them here: useragentstring.com/pages/Internet%20Explorer/)
What do you want IE?
Not available for android.
Chrome is better
Why are so many people asking WHY he wants it? Can you not read the OP? It clearly states other browsers don't work for his job.
OP, sorry to say, this probably will not come to fruition. =(
I really hate those websites that don't work on other browsers, except the worst browser I ever saw.
Epic_VS said:
I haven't tried this, but it should work
1.Download Dolphin Browser
2. go to Menu> More> Settings> Dolphin settings> User Agent>
3.click custom
4.enter
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0
or another useragent string(you can get them here: useragentstring.com/pages/Internet%20Explorer/)
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can anybody test this?
stkfigure said:
Well, in that case they need to switch, I mean IE is only used to download other browsers
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Yeah, it's easy for us to say that, but try convincing IT managers from nearly every medium/large corporation in America to switch to browsers made by smaller firms that can't offer the huge support base that MS has. Firefox would be the most viable alternative, but mozilla's already turned away large groups of potential users with their update methodology.
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Developing for android on android?

There's no app to simple app development (like appinventor) to do it on the phone or tablet? Maybe the easiest way is to run ubuntu and install SDK, eclipse...? What do you think?
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360porcento said:
There's no app to simple app development (like appinventor) to do it on the phone or tablet? Maybe the easiest way is to run ubuntu and install SDK, eclipse...? What do you think?
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App inventor is still going for now I think but next easiest way is a basic programming language basic4android which though easy to learn and use can produce very complex apps I created media streaming and contact widget apps and others have created bittorent search engines, video players, spreadsheet apps and games so is something worth looking into as it also has an ide you can use to develop on your android device though main ide is windows based.
Dave
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Thanks for the info. I'm still thinking of where to start.
mistermentality said:
App inventor is still going for now I think but next easiest way is a basic programming language basic4android which though easy to learn and use can produce very complex apps I created media streaming and contact widget apps and others have created bittorent search engines, video players, spreadsheet apps and games so is something worth looking into as it also has an ide you can use to develop on your android device though main ide is windows based.
Dave
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Yeah, but there's not a tool to dev on device...
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Terminal IDE is what you want. You should know basic Linux terminal commands to use it, but it has good tutorials... It's a large app (~30MB) but it's an entire terminal emulator with the ability to develop Java on your Android. It also doesn't require root.
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Oh that's good to know. Where can I download? So basically the development is done via command line?
d0wngrade said:
Terminal IDE is what you want. You should know basic Linux terminal commands to use it, but it has good tutorials... It's a large app (~30MB) but it's an entire terminal emulator with the ability to develop Java on your Android. It also doesn't require root.
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androidapk.net said:
Oh that's good to know. Where can I download? So basically the development is done via command line?
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From the market it's free... I've downloaded but I'll watch some tutorials first...(it's 31m ,0.o)
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Porting applications

Is it possible to port a silver light web application into an android app? How would one go about doing this?
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Is it possible to port a silver light web application into an android app? How would one go about doing this?
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I think there was some work done a while ago to port the Linux Silverlight alternative called Moonlight to Android. I don't think it got very far.
Moonlight is missing some things like DRM which Microsoft won't share (no surprise there) so things like Netflix won't work.
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Äptiva said:
I think there was some work done a while ago to port the Linux Silverlight alternative called Moonlight to Android. I don't think it got very far.
Moonlight is missing some things like DRM which Microsoft won't share (no surprise there) so things like Netflix won't work.
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Would it be possible to port an silver light application to java and then to android?
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That I couldn't tell you. I would imagine you could just write it in Java or C# and make it Android native though

Ubuntu Touch App Development Contest

Canonical is kicking off an app developer competition for Ubuntu Touch and the new Ubuntu SDK! It's a 6 week contest where you can build a new original app for Ubuntu Touch or port an exiting app from another platform. We have three Nexus 4 phones that will be given away as prizes, running Ubuntu Touch of course, and with the winning apps pre-installed on them.
http://developer.ubuntu.com/2013/08/announcing-the-2013-ubuntu-app-showdown-contest/
Evil1Art1ZGEY said:
I would enter an app, but do not know how to make Ubuntu apps as I am just learning to develop for android
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You can write apps in HTML5 or C++
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Full desktop?

Just wondering, is the current Ubuntu Touch supporting a full desktop when connected to a monitor like through an HDMI?
I saw videos from Ubuntu on this feature and wanted to know if it working?
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It's not working yet. Canonical has proven that the concept can work by its Ubuntu for Android project. After the release of version 14.04 two weeks ago, they will start work on bringing Unity 8 (the desktop environment, current desktop version is 7 while the phone version is already Unity 8) and the Mir display server to the desktop. Afterwards, it should theoretically be possible to do that stuff. Additionally, they will continue to improve their SDK for the development of Ubuntu apps which already work on all platforms (phone, tablet and desktop) and adjust to screen size.
The whole concept is what they call Convergence.
nikwen said:
It's not working yet. Canonical has proven that the concept can work by its Ubuntu for Android project. After the release of version 14.04 two weeks ago, they will start work on bringing Unity 8 (the desktop environment, current desktop version is 7 while the phone version is already Unity 8) and the Mir display server to the desktop. Afterwards, it should theoretically be possible to do that stuff. Additionally, they will continue to improve their SDK for the development of Ubuntu apps which already work on all platforms (phone, tablet and desktop) and adjust to screen size.
The whole concept is what they call Convergence.
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Some of their ideas for convergence are quite awesome. The recent news has been that they have stopped the Ubuntu for Android project. I have been wondering since where their views on complete integration, their "one device to rule the all" direction, is heading.
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abumy said:
Some of their ideas for convergence are quite awesome. The recent news has been that they have stopped the Ubuntu for Android project. I have been wondering since where their views on complete integration, their "one device to rule the all" direction, is heading.
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Yep, I totally agree, full convergence will be awesome. I'm eagerly waiting for it.
I only used ubuntu on the pc
tercelman said:
I only used ubuntu on the pc
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At present me too.
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abumy said:
At present me too.
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It's great on both PC and mobile. However, on mobile it still has a long way to go until it reaches the state when it can be used by the average end-user. Keep in mind that it's making progress very fast though.

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