[bobajeff]

I'm not sure, but I think that on Android resources are restricted in ways that give first priority to Dalvik vs other runtimes. I also suspect Chrome is given priority when it comes to integration with it.

There's also something to be said about the advantages that default browser's get in terms of market share.

Mozilla's move to making their own OS might have come too late but the reasoning behind it was both strategically and technically sound.

[_ea1k]

Android doesn't run Dalvik any more and Chrome doesn't appear to be given "priority" in any meaningful sense.

Their reasons may have seemed sound technically, but the business of building a phone ecosystem on a completely new OS were well beyond their abilities.

[bobajeff]

You seem to have ignored the strategic reason for having a platform. It's very hard to compete with a default application.

Sure it may not have been in their wheelhouse but they certainly had reason to try.