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Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends by cwyers on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @01:22PM (#8954683)
Is that something Windows Phone is doing, or are Mozilla and Google not making their browsers run on a device with a low market share?
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Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends by at-fates-hands on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @04:16PM (#8962595)
After some more looking around, it seems it was a mutal decision.

Windows started the war when they locked out native third-party code development on the Windows Phone 7 platform. Then in subsequent findings, Chrome lamented they can't get enough privileges with Metro app development to make it work and Mozilla knows MS doesn't want to further their platform - so a sort of stalemate at this point, and a loss to Windows Phone users.

Sources:

Mozilla: No plans to release Firefox for Windows Phone 7 (March 2010)

http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-no-plans-to-release-fir...!

Google Has ‘No Current Plans’ to Bring Chrome to Windows Phone (August 2014)

http://www.omgchrome.com/no-current-plans-to-bring-google-ch...

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