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To anyone who finds this platform compelling and wants to help it to succeed: You can help by writing cross-browser mobile web apps, or by making sure your existing web sites and apps work well in Firefox as well as other browsers. Right now a huge number of mobile sites (including high-profile ones like Google!) use browser-specific code.

And if you are interesting in writing web apps specifically for the B2G platform, check out the new web APIs being proposed and implemented in B2G, and give us feedback on any that you use in your app: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI

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I wish you guys would reconsider your position on mp3 support. We'd love to support mobile Firefox, but without html5 mp3 support, or flash support, that'll be a non-starter until Firefox OS has massive traction, enough to justify the cost of transcoding millions of files and maintaining 2 copies.

Edit: if you're going to down vote please explain why

I didn't down vote but I guess some readers disagree with your comment. iOS doesn't support flash for some years now. So if firefox OS does too, it doesn't look much like an up hill path.

Ah, to be clear I was asking for MP3 support or flash support, not both (flash support would indirectly mean MP3 support). Essentially to be on par with mobile Safari on the audio front is all I'm really asking. :)

Yes, there are plans (though not without some controversy) to include H.264 and MP3 decoding at least in B2G (Firefox OS), and possibly on other platforms where they are available from the OS:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/-xTei5r...

The patches have already landed in B2G: http://bugzil.la/714408

Awesome, that's exciting news!

I hope Mozilla produces a giant developer phone a la Nexus, where I may start testing those APIs.

If you want to start testing the Apis you can flash B2G on to a nexus S very easily today. There will be nightly builds available for download soon too if you don't have a build environment set up

Edit: originally I listed the wrong nexus model

A Nexus One? Really? https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko/Setti... suggests that only Nexus S, Galaxy S2, and the Galaxy Nexus are listed. There's also a note that "only devices running Android 4 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich) are supported," where the Nexus One is stuck at Gingerbread.

If this has changed, I'm really, really excited. :)

Please support the TORO, CDMA variant of the Galaxy Nexus. I think you'd find a lot of interested Verizon users.

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