The Nokia N900 already starting to ship and Mozilla is in on its way to the release of the mobile version of Firefox that runs on the Maemo open mobile platform of the N900. What else can be better that to start it off with a mobile Firefox add-on challenge to stir things up a bit. Mozilla has started an add-on development contest that will end on December 7, 2009. The price? What else a brand new shiny Nokia N900 to the winner. You can check out the contest rules here. The judgess will select ten (10) mobile add-ons that best represent user experience and innovation on Firefox for mobile devices. The 10 winners will each receive a Nokia N900. Cool!

Mozilla, the organization that manages the development and community collaboration for the Firefox web browser, has started developing a mobile version of its Mozilla Firefox web browser a while back. The Mobile Firefox version, officially know as Fennec, started out with a Windows Mobile version of the web browser. A version for the upcoming Nokia N900 connected phone that runs the new Maemo 5 mobile platform is also under development. In line with Mozilla’s thrust into the mobile space it has just announced the winner of its “Firefox goes mobile” design challenge. The winner is the PocketFox design by Yaroslaff Chekunov who hails from Russia.

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