BEIJING, Oct. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Mozilla Corp. plans to develop a version of Firefox to appear for mobile phones, media reports said Thursday.

    After successfully changing the game in desktop web browsing, Mozilla now has its sights set on the mobile market by recently hiring two new developers to help work on the project.

    "People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the mobile Web, and I'm very excited to announce that we plan to rock it. We are serious about bringing the Firefox experience and technology to mobile devices," wrote Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's vice president of engineering, in his blog on Tuesday.

    Firefox Mobile will operate much like the desktop version, including support for XUL and extensions. Additionally, the development team is looking into portability options, where a user could easily port preferences, bookmarks, and so forth between the mobile and the desktop.

    Mozilla's plan also includes adding mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla 2, the company's all-in-one Internet application suite. The move will make mobile devices part of Mozilla's core platform, Schroepfer said.

    (Agencies)