So this is reasonably exciting. Some super secret source told PlayStation Insider that Sony has talked to Mozilla about porting Firefox to the PS3. Note the wording of that sentence: talks about porting Firefox. Needless to say, if this is even true, then we’re at a very early stage of development.
It’s no secret that the PS3 Web browser isn’t the best one out there, and porting Firefox would give Sony another bullet point to put on a press release: “Runs Firefox (Does your Xbox 360? Thought not.)” I’m not sure how often people use their PS3 Web browser, so I don’t know if this will end up being a huge deal from a users’ standpoint, but yeah, I just see it as something Sony can have over its competitors.
I seem to recall the Xbox “scene” trying to port over Mozilla and/or Firefox to the Xbox1 back in the day, but the people were like, “The code base is a giant mess, it’d take many, many hours to get it to run on the Xbox.”
Of course, people have had the ability to run Firefox on the PS3 for some time—provided you install Linux on the system, which you can’t do anymore.
now thinking PS3 as a legit media center for entertainment and multimedia purposes
Good news really, Firefox is solid. The PS3 browser is trousers!
Anyway, I’ve installed YDL, so I’m aslready running Firefox.
Would be a nice move by Sony, and I’m sure the Mozilla Corp wouldn’t have any problems coding for the PS3.
My only problem with using the PS3 browser, its the PS3 inability of running parallel applications (like Browser+Listening to Music or Playing a Game+Launching the Browser).
So in the end (even though the PS3 behaves more like a PC compared to the 360), I would see very little use for it, but still a VERY welcome addition. I wonder if Hulu will work again since the PS3 will have a different browser and may circumvent Hulu’s block.
Great News.. Hopefully its true. THX
This is truly awesome. The browser on the PS3 now just sucks.
http://bit.ly/1jwwSm
Lets hope so!