The Mobile Web War has begun!

If you thought the Cola Wars of the 80’s and 90’s were bad, just wait until you have to start choosing between mobile web browsers on your phone.

Obviously, there are the browsers that mobile web-enabled phones ship with – Internet Explorer, Safari, and Chrome. Plus there are a handful of browsers available for download – things like Thunderhawk, Opera, Skyfire and others. But in Monday’s San Jose Mercury News, Mozilla CEO John Lilly let slip information of an upcoming release of FireFox Mobile.

Unwiredview.com has the excerpts from the interview, perhaps the most revealing of which is the timeline – “a few weeks”.

With all the mobile news we’ve been reporting on here at TNMS over the past couple of weeks – T-Mobile’s removal of bandwidth caps, Flickr producing a mobile-optimized version of their site, the introduction of the G1 “Dream” using Google’s Android OS – this could be the biggest news of them all.

Here at TNMS, we’ve made no secret of our preference for FireFox over Internet Explorer. Now with the option of having FireFox on a mobile web-enabled browser, the good folks at Mozilla are establishing a firm grip on their niche in the Internet Browser market.