This is a sad but expected capitulation on Mozilla&#x27;s part. They weren&#x27;t succeeding in their efforts to ship Firefox devices and they were blocked from shipping Firefox proper on iOS devices. If they didn&#x27;t ship something, an entire generation of web users wouldn&#x27;t even know what Firefox was.<p>Webkit browsers currently account for a 91.6% share [1] of mobile (phone&#x2F;tablet) browsing. Ironic as it sounds, the only hope right now for mobile web standards is Microsoft. They&#x27;re the only vendor that stands in the way of the idea that Webkit should simply become the de-facto standard for the web, in place of specs worked out in collaboration with other browser vendors through the W3C.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netmarketshare.com&#x2F;browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2&amp;qpcustomd=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.netmarketshare.com&#x2F;browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...</a><p><i>Correction: Firefox on Android ships with Gecko, my mistake.</i>