{"id":55140,"date":"2013-11-11T18:45:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=55140"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:02:41","slug":"no-plans-for-whatsapp-on-firefox-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/no-plans-for-whatsapp-on-firefox-os\/","title":{"rendered":"No plans for WhatsApp on Firefox OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/b\/whatsapp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a> head of business Neeraj Arora has stated that contrary to reports last week, the company has no plans to bring its messaging service to Firefox OS.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the CEO of Spanish carrier Telefonica said that WhatsApp would be available on Firefox OS in the next few weeks. But this was strongly denied by WhatsApp on Twitter: &#8216;there are no plans to bring WhatsApp to Firefox OS,&#8217; said Arora. A Firefox OS <a href=\"http:\/\/firefoxosguide.com\/firefox-os\/plans-bring-whatsapp-firefoxos-whatsapp-employee.html\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news site<\/a> has also been suggesting since September that WhatsApp will be released for Mozilla&#8217;s new mobile OS, but increasingly this looks like speculation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FirefoxOSGuide\">@FirefoxOSGuide<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonWeathersby\">@JasonWeathersby<\/a> no. I confirm there are no plans to bring WhatsApp to FirefoxOS.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Neeraj Arora (@neerajarora) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neerajarora\/statuses\/398887292908998656\">November 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Replying to these rumors, Arora also scornfully said &#8216;ask people who are spreading the misinformation. 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Last week the CEO of Spanish carrier Telefonica said that WhatsApp would be available on Firefox OS in the next few weeks. But this was strongly denied by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/no-plans-for-whatsapp-on-firefox-os\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No plans for WhatsApp on Firefox OS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-55140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331843,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55140\/revisions\/331843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55140"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=55140"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=55140"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=55140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}