February 11, 2015 at 00:20Google Play Store blocked Firefox for Android (most likely by mistake)
Firefox developers discuss bug 1131601 , because of which Firefox was blocked in the application store. When accessing the address
Naturally, conspiracy theories immediately went , because 3 months ago Mozilla abandoned Google as the main search engine in Firefox. Allegedly, Google is taking revenge - and the company found a reason to declare Firefox under Android “obsolete”.
Google sent letters to some media outlets ( one more ) that they will release an update “soon”.
But the source of the problem is still not entirely clear.
At this moment, the error is not fixed .
UPD Well, that's it, corrected, false alarm.
play.google.comcomes 403 Forbiddenbased on the wrong User Agent. On the screen is:This browser is no longer supported.
Please use the Google Play Store app to access Google Play.
Naturally, conspiracy theories immediately went , because 3 months ago Mozilla abandoned Google as the main search engine in Firefox. Allegedly, Google is taking revenge - and the company found a reason to declare Firefox under Android “obsolete”.
Google sent letters to some media outlets ( one more ) that they will release an update “soon”.
But the source of the problem is still not entirely clear.
At this moment, the error is not fixed .
UPD Well, that's it, corrected, false alarm.