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Mozilla Plans to Launch Its Firefox Browser for iOS

Mozilla Plans to Launch Its Firefox Browser for iOS

Posted December 3, 2014 at 3:36am by iClarified
Mozilla has announced that it's now planning to release a version of the Firefox browser for iOS.

At an internal Mozilla event in Portland, the company's leadership announced the decision.

“We need to be where our users are,” Firefox release manager Lukas Blakk wrote on Twitter today (quoting Mozilla’s VP for Firefox Jonathan Nightingale, TechCrunch suggests). “So we’re going to get Firefox on iOS.”


Since Apple requires the use of its JavaScript and rendering engines on iOS, it's likely that Firefox will have work within those confines. However, the browser would bring support for Firefox features such as bookmark syncing making it easy for Firefox desktop users to continuing browsing on iOS.

Matthew Ruttley, Mozilla's Manager of Data Science, posted a photo from the event exclaiming, "Firefox for iOS!! Let's do this!!!"

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Read More [via TechCrunch]



Mozilla Plans to Launch Its Firefox Browser for iOS
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Lakhjhajj
Lakhjhajj - December 4, 2014 at 1:29am
Guess no one can ignore IOS. Firefox had openly said in the past they will not bring Firefox to IOS until Apple allows them to use their own engine.
AndyBoer
AndyBoer - December 3, 2014 at 11:28am
New language?
crz6662
crz6662 - December 4, 2014 at 9:49am
Huh ? What ? Duh !
zetaprime
zetaprime - December 3, 2014 at 4:59am
Since Firefox is my primary browser on the Mac it will certainly be the one I use on iOS once it comes out. Now maybe in another 5 years it'll be available for download.
zetaprime
zetaprime - December 3, 2014 at 4:57am
It's about time..and like 5 years late.
gamerscul9870
gamerscul9870 - December 3, 2014 at 3:41am
"We need to know where our users are" and putting this on ios is supposed to work how?
Great!
Great! - December 3, 2014 at 3:57am
Where did he say that?
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