Rumor: Firefox for Wii?

[iamapplejuice]

Originally Posted by qj.net

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Since there's no actual way to represent a [Only registered users can see links. ]-Wii combination, allow the above bit of humble Photoshoppery to suffice. We're still calling this a rumor until verified, but according to one site, Firefox is headed the way of the Wii.

Gaming Phreak's Jeff Couret wrote an article saying, "The popular free browser is coming soon to the Nintendo Wii, says [Only registered users can see links. ]." With the exception of the hack that allowed someone to check out the Wii Shop Channel [Only registered users can see links. ], we haven't heard anything about this.

Couret also mentions that some rather interesting features. They'll be implementing a new scrolling method they're calling "motion-browse," which lets you do specific browsing tasks by moving the [Only registered users can see links. ] in a certain fashion. There will also be predictive text input to speed up writing to around 50 words a minute, says the article.

A couple of things. First, while this is plausible, the article has no source to back it up. Second, the Firefox browser will supposedly be a free download. Wouldn't that be counterintuitive, seeing as Nintendo [Only registered users can see links. ]? Furthermore, if this is such a big thing, why doesn't the [Only registered users can see links. ] Foundation have any update on this development?

Lastly, and perhaps more importantly, how many "Burning Wii" jokes will we endure as a result of this rumor? Till we find some answers, this is definitely one piece of info going into our rumor mill.

I hope this really does happen. That would be so sweet! The zooming in feature better be redone though. I hate how it is right now.. You should be able to control exactly how far you want to zoom in. I'm praying for this to come out for Wii...

[Bex]

I hope it does too :-D


But, just a rumour for now - defo worth keepin an eye on though. FF tis better than opera imo

[Momma Bear]

This would be great but... I don't mind opera. I use it on my cell phone and my work computer sometimes. Anthing but IE imo.