Mozilla’s decision to recast its mobile strategy won’t matter, analysts said today: The open-source developer won’t find any more success with a new plan than the discouraging progress so far with the old.

“Bottom line, I don’t think Mozilla will be any more successful with this new strategy,” said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates. “They’ve not had an impact in mobile so far, and I think their prospects are minimal in the future.”

Ouch.

Gold and others were reacting to a report last week by CNET.com that cited an internal memo from Mozilla CEO Chris Beard. In his missive, Beard laid out a new initiative for Firefox OS — which previously has been pinned to ultra-inexpensive handsets — that would, if executed, broaden the reach of its browser-based mobile OS.

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