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Given the two topics covered in this one post, I'm wondering why there was no mention of a mobile Firefox build for the Meego OS? Are there any plans to do this? If so, will it happen before Maemo builds stop being produced?

"having a mass-market phone out there that comes with a fully open "real Linux" is awesome"
The N9 isn't the only. You should take a look at WebOS: http://developer.palm.com/blog/2011/05/10-reasons-for-geeks-to-love-hp-webos

Both Mozilla and Nokia are working on it.

I have not heard about Mozilla plans for MeeGo (and which one do you mean? N9's Harmattan? MeeGo N900 Community Edition (which comes with Firefox preloaded but rebranded as "Browser")? Any other MeeGo version?)

I think WebOS uses a custom frontend, not a conventional Qt- or GTK-based one, so I would still say it falls slightly short on the "real Linux" front (and does it comes with a shell by default that I can easily use to get into root and mess around with the system without losing warranty?). Also, where are the available mass-market devices?

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WebOS is a lot better than Android, but by default it does not use X11 (I think there is an installable version), which is definitely a downside.

Even though I just got my (secondhand) N900 a few months ago, I would love to upgrade, but the lack of a keyboard is a dealbreaker for me. I have no way of getting an N950, either. The N950 also has no NFC or Bluetooth 4, and a smaller battery to boot. I know the N9 switched to a capacitive screen with no stylus, and I guess the N950 does as well.

Poor tradeoffs all around...

AH Kairo but there is one more new security update being planned for Firefox 3.6 and that is 3.6.19.

Read here for the details of FF 3.6.19 and on a possible FF 3.6 EOL:
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/2b42f29c21378451#

so Mozilla hasn't yet completely abandoned Firefox 3.6.

Haven't read that, but I wished we would have. I don't want to support multiple stable releases with crash analysis and rather would put more work time into finding stuff in prereleases so we ultimately can make Firefox more stable.

Address of this extension looks not so perfect in addons

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/j%C3%B6kuls%C3%A1rl%C3%B3n-download-manager/