No. Steam and the (Apple, Google, etc) App Stores exist for a reason - Mozilla's colossal failure. I can't count the number of times I have been out somewhere

No. Steam and the (Apple, Google, etc) App Stores exist for a reason - Mozilla's colossal failure. I can't count the number of times I have been out somewhere with my top of the line android phone, loaded a responsive HTML5 webpage and then finally gave up after spending way too much time trying to get to the data that I was after. The mobile app experience is terrible. Static compiled code will always run way faster than dynamic languages. Mozilla's ideology doesn't allow compiled code, even though that's basically what asm.js is all about. The smartest and best thing Mozilla or some new browser vendor could do would be if they embraced android . The amount of quality engineering that has went into building that modern, ultra lean framework is epic. Imagine if someone made it so that anyone could do the equivalent of <html><object apk="my.apk" /></html>. That would be pretty great. Ofc for all sorts of cultural reasons it probably won't happen. Imagine Microsoft open sourced windows xp in the 90s, and no one bothered to do anything with it. That would be the equivalent of today's situation. PS Google can obviously do it - but maybe they are leaving it shut off because according to their current calculations the App Store revenue is better than having dominant browser market share. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush... A thread with some great commentary on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5226309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5226309