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Author:  pcernie [ Sat May 29, 2010 4:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Mozilla to bring Firefox to iPhone?
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Firefox Home is one way for Mozilla to dodge Apple's ban of rival browsers on its iPhone smartphone and iPad tablet.


http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.c ... ID=3224980

Is it only a matter of time before someone like the EU looks at the 'ban'? Or is it a case of 'There's other phones out there', or something else? :?
Author:  finlay666 [ Sun May 30, 2010 1:46 pm ]
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The fennec on WM beta was terrible.

Browser was stupidly slow and laggy when it wasnt being totally unresponsive
Author:  l3v1ck [ Sun May 30, 2010 9:28 pm ]
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I couldn't even get the Android alpha fo Fennec to load on my phone.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon May 31, 2010 1:12 am ]
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Will this really be taken up by many. Safari is a perfectly adequate browser on the iPhone. Though if I were to consider another browser I would probably opt for Opera.
Author:  pcernie [ Mon May 31, 2010 10:34 am ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
Will this really be taken up by many. Safari is a perfectly adequate browser on the iPhone. Though if I were to consider another browser I would probably opt for Opera.


Between the respective user bases, I'd think you'll get one or two people willing to give it a go ;)
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon May 31, 2010 1:41 pm ]
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pcernie wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
Will this really be taken up by many. Safari is a perfectly adequate browser on the iPhone. Though if I were to consider another browser I would probably opt for Opera.


Between the respective user bases, I'd think you'll get one or two people willing to give it a go ;)

I will accept that. Possibly because they could get add-ons to work with Firefox which are simply not available for Safari.
Author:  Nick [ Mon May 31, 2010 2:35 pm ]
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pcernie wrote:
Is it only a matter of time before someone like the EU looks at the 'ban'? Or is it a case of 'There's other phones out there', or something else? :?


I hope so, personally. I reckon there is room for improvement as far as browsers on the iPhone go.

Opening it up should mean everyone raises their game.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon May 31, 2010 3:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mozilla to bring Firefox to iPhone?
I do not think that there is a real need for another browser, it is nice but that is about it. As for opening up the iPhone, I do get peeved that so many apps are refused for no apparent reason.
Author:  pcernie [ Mon May 31, 2010 3:35 pm ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
I do not think that there is a real need for another browser, it is nice but that is about it. As for opening up the iPhone, I do get peeved that so many apps are refused for no apparent reason.


It's that sort of behaviour that would make another browser a good idea in general IMO.

Oh, and let's not forget about complacency, though they'd be going well to match IE6 :lol:
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon May 31, 2010 4:24 pm ]
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pcernie wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
I do not think that there is a real need for another browser, it is nice but that is about it. As for opening up the iPhone, I do get peeved that so many apps are refused for no apparent reason.


It's that sort of behaviour that would make another browser a good idea in general IMO.

Oh, and let's not forget about complacency, though they'd be going well to match IE6 :lol:

Yes but Safari is not in IE 6 territory. It gets updated regularly.
Author:  forquare1 [ Mon May 31, 2010 7:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Mozilla to bring Firefox to iPhone?
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Because Apple prohibits competing browsers on the iPhone, Firefox Home will be 'read-only', and will rely on the smartphone's native Safari browser to actually render pages.


So basically it's Safari with some add-ons?
Author:  Nick [ Mon May 31, 2010 8:00 pm ]
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Well, in some respects I guess so.

It's only the rendering that Safari will do though - I assume the UI will all be Mozilla, and they might include some snazzy features that Apple haven't included with Safari.
Author:  JJW009 [ Mon May 31, 2010 11:39 pm ]
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forquare1 wrote:
Quote:
Because Apple prohibits competing browsers on the iPhone, Firefox Home will be 'read-only', and will rely on the smartphone's native Safari browser to actually render pages.


So basically it's Safari with some add-ons?

So I guess that means it won't work with any of the existing FF plugins, including Flash and Java obviously...
Author:  forquare1 [ Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:08 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mozilla to bring Firefox to iPhone?
JJW009 wrote:
forquare1 wrote:
Quote:
Because Apple prohibits competing browsers on the iPhone, Firefox Home will be 'read-only', and will rely on the smartphone's native Safari browser to actually render pages.


So basically it's Safari with some add-ons?

So I guess that means it won't work with any of the existing FF plugins, including Flash and Java obviously...


I'd have thought so.

I don't really see the point of it if it's Using WebKit...After talking to the Camino developers on IRC, Gecko provides a lot more than just rendering, switching to WebKit would mean a lot more work to be done to the actual browser...Therefore, Firefox for iPhone simply won't be Firefox at all, rather Safari dressed up to look like it...
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:17 am ]
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But since Flash and Java are huge security holes would you really want them on your phone? I don't.
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