I’m working on a review of the Kindle Fire. Though it’s taking some heat on the net right now, I love the device.
Of course, I wanted to run Firefox on it. On the Kindle Fire you install Apps from the Amazon App marketplace and not the Android Marketplace.
As of today Firefox Mobile is not in the Amazon marketplace (and yes, our team is working with Amazon to get it in there.)
Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to “side-load” apps onto the Fire.
First you need to get the Firefox Mobile Android App onto your Windows/Mac/Linux desktop.
There are a couple of ways to do this.
1.) Go to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android and grab it.
2.) I wanted to be sure to test the version I’m running on my phone so I went the other way.
- On my Android phone I installed “Astro File Manager” from the App Store.
- It automatically configured itself to do backups to my MicroSD card.
- In Astro File manager I ran the “Application Backup” function and selected the Firefox Mobile App.
- When done, I pulled the SD card and inserted it into my laptop using my MicroSD / USB adapter.
- I copped Firefox-2011110417.apk from the MicroSD card to my desktop.
- I plugged in my Kindle Fire and copied the Firefox-2011110417.apk file from my desktop to the kindle.
- Then on the Kindle Fire I just ran “Easy Installer” to install Firefox Mobile
- Viola !
With Firefox running on my Amazon Kindle Fire I can start writing a full review.
Out of curiousity, can you also install apps like Firefox by downloading them directly to the device using the default web browser?
Absolutely.
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Sorry for the noobness, is there other ways for me to get the app on my desktop if it says “There are no Android phones associated with this account. Please sign in with a different account.”?
“Out of curiousity, can you also install apps like Firefox by downloading them directly to the device using the default web browser?”
“Absolutely.”
I’m not sure what this means. I just tried downloading Firefox for Android directly to my Kindle Fire, but when I tried to do so via the Fire’s Silk browser I got a dialog box telling me Firefox wasn’t available on Amazon’s App Store. It was a no go.
Have I misinterpreted this exchange?
I’m going to try it using Joe’s second method — the 8-step process that first involves putting it on my Android phone.
I was able to download and run firefox for my kindle fire by going to the FTP site….directly from FTP server at bit.ly/fennecftp
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