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Firefox Mobile alpha (Codename: "Fennec") is launching within weeks! In a recent interview, Mozilla CEO John Lilly confirmed the news.

Although it was previously circulated that a public release will happen no before than 2010, you can expect the new alphas to be released within a month or two. In answer to "What are you doing in mobile?" in a recent interview (San Jose Mercury News interview), John Lilly said:

We want to make sure that the Web on mobile is more like the Web than what the mobile industry offers today, which is closed, separate networks and not a very good information-getting experience for the user. The first thing is to bring Firefox to mobile devices. We’re working on that, and we’ll see some alphas in a few weeks.

However, the mobile version, Fennec, has got to do a lot to get established in this market. This very market is already dominated by Opera, and Mozilla will have to meet a high bar to continue their success with Desktops. But with their tremendous name value and open source coding, you can assume that Firefox will emerge as a market leader in this field too (over 2.5 billion cell phone users world-wide) .

For those who cannot wait for the alpha releases, you can download the MobileFirefox 2.0.0.7, which is actually a mobile version of the Firefox 1.5.0.3.

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