Mozilla just released a mobile version of Firefox for Android devices. Unfortunately they haven’t directly published the link to the apk. If you follow the download link from a desktop system it takes you to the desktop installer. From a device it takes you to the apk, but I’m on a Samsung Captivate I haven’t rooted yet, so I can’t install from the browser. Instead I downloaded through the browser, sucked the file out using ADB, and the installed that way:
- ./adb pull /sdcard/download/fennec.apk ~/fennec.apk
- ./adb install ~/fennec.apk
Dear Mozilla, great idea directing folks to the right download automatically, but please take this case into consideration. Lots of folks on AT&T devices who can’t install directly. Or, alternatively, AT&T could stop being idiots. Slim chance of that though.
I have the same problem, I don’t use ADB but use AndroidCentral-SWM to sideload apk’s. It’s very simple and easy to use, but Firefox needs to provide the apk for download. I’m very disappointed in Firefox.
Icve enjoyed Firefox for years, a required AP for all my windows and Linux boxes. Happy to see the fox on Android. On the down side, I’m having some 90+% lockups running Firefox while visiting some websites, with my LG G2x. Other browsers on the same sites, no problems. I suspect the fox is trying to perform too many tasks at once – tasks the other browsers block or ignore.