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Originally Posted by daperl View Post
I think Mozilla's significance is more important than it's ever been. IE has been handed its hat on the desktop by a one-two Gecko-Webkit punch, but now all eyes are on handhelds. Webkit branches sharply at the UI level, and thus, so do plenty of features. We're the big winners here so far, and as long Nokia continues to use Mozilla for the flagship browser we'll stay that way. It's a very good, yet bizarre twist of fate with all things considered. Either that, or Nokia is alot smarter than most of us give them credit for.
However, while Nokia uses a Gecko-engined browser, they aren't using one that seems to use the better user-facing aspect of it - extensions (edit: extensions which are cross-device and platform compatible). If that piece of things were more in sync with Mozilla's Firefox, then I could agree that Nokia is being smarter. At this point, I'm not sure so much that its an issue of being smarter - especially with they have Webkit already in-house and on their other, larger platforms.