T-Mobile G1 users needing a FireFox fix on their newly purchased Android device may have to wait a long long time before such dreams ever come to fruition due to some technical limitations.

The new Mozilla FireFox browser which is codenamed Fennec, (the name of a small fox) for mobile devices is finding its way to the Google Android OS most difficult. Fennec which went into Alpha last week will find itself creeping onto the likes of Windows Mobile, Symbian, Nokia's Internet Tablet series and probably some Linux handset from LiMo and friends.

So why is Android left in the cold you ask? Well Android is based on Linux but the developer environment is all Java, make that Google's version of Java which is called Dalvik. Applications are not allowed to run locally straight from the Operating System as Mozilla would have preferred so the outcome is quite a big stink for Android users at the moment.

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If Android were supportive of applications that could run directly on the operating system without needing to be written in Java, Sullivan says, "then it's interesting for us. We'll have to see which direction Google goes with that."

So it's clear, no FireFox love for Android, but all is not lost young Jedi for Google is hard at work at this very moment (i think) with a version of their Chrome browser for Android devices which may or may not adopt the name Chrome-Lite. Chrome-Lite will have most of the same make up as its bigger brother Chrome for the Windows Desktop such as being based on the Web-Kit engine, will have the V8 virtual machine Java engine and many more.

The browser wars on the small screen has begun folks, so lets all sit back and enjoy the show.

Via [Android Community]