There's one key feature missing from the iPhone and every other browser-equipped handset: Firefox. Fortunately, Mozilla has confirmed that the first alpha version of Firefox mobile will be available in the coming weeks.

Mozilla CEO John Lilly told the San Jose Mercury that his company has been working toward an open-platform mobile browser similar to the current desktop version of Firefox.

"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," Lilly said. "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."

This sounds quite exciting. Think about how much Firefox add-ons would enhance your mobile browsing experience. What'd be really cool is a touchscreen version of All-in-One Gestures, which allows you to program custom mouse gestures to execute commands such as spell check, switching windows, opening a new tab and so on.

What do you got for us, Firefox? We'll have to wait and see in the coming weeks.

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Q&A with John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla [San Jose Mercury]