Firefox Coming to iOS Devices..

[Tech_Dreamer]

Apple Fanboys Rejoice

 

 

Good news for Apple people, Firefox is planning to set foot on the iOS devices later next year , The news was officially announced by Firefox release manager Lukas Blakk

 

 

“We need to be where our users are,So we’re going to get Firefox on iOS.”

                                                                                                                                                                             -  Lukas Blakk Firefox release manager

 

Apple has been very restrictive with regard to third-party browser engines on its platform. Current third-party iOS browsers like Chrome or Opera can only operate on iOS because they use Apple’s own JavaScript and rendering engines,

 

 

 

Apple has been very restrictive with regard to third-party browser engines on its platform. Current third-party iOS browsers like Chrome or Opera can only operate on iOS because they use Apple’s own JavaScript and rendering engines,

 

It’s unclear how Mozilla plans to bring Firefox to iOS, but given that Apple isn’t likely to open up its platform for third-party browser engines, it’ll likely have to work with Apple’s technology. With that, it can still support Firefox accounts, its bookmark-syncing tools and all the other features that Firefox for Android currently offers.

 

Apple has been very restrictive with regard to third-party browser engines on its platform. Current third-party iOS browsers like Chrome or Opera can only operate on iOS because they use Apple’s own JavaScript and rendering engines, for example or, as in the case of Opera, by rendering sites on a server and then sending them to the device.

 

Pretty cool news imo , Mozilla's been changing a lot lately , they announced the new partnership with Yahoo & made their search engine as default on later newer versions of firefox, The also changed the layout of the search box making it more easier to navigate,

 

Please do post your thoughts on this down beloooooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeee

 

Link Source:

https://twitter.com/lsblakk/status/539843892300898304

 

News Source:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/02/firefox-could-soon-come-to-ios/

[Arphenyte]

Puffin can run flash player, problem? If anything, I'll just replace Safari with it, but that's about it.

[Derangel]

Cool. I wonder if it will crash less than Chrome on my iPad.

[Firearm2112]

Pretty cool. hey, isnt yahoo's owner part of the kkk or something like that

[Tonylu1595]

I'm still on IOS 7. So everything except safari is going to be slow.

[flibberdipper]

It's about time. So long as all of my bookmarks would sync, I'd be happy.

[FuzzyYellow]

YAY! I am so sick of having to deal with everyone else in my family's 15 million tabs open in safari. now i will have my own separate web browser.

[RevoltTrain]

I've always been an Android and Chrome Beta person, but regardless, still cool.

[Guest]

To be fair, Apple just (with iOS 8) allowed 3rd party browsers to have access to their Nitro JS engine, which screams. It's not like using their backend will slow down Firefox.

 

But, it's funny how last year they refused to release it because Apple was 'too restrictive,' and they wouldn't stand for it.

[Guest]

YAY! I am so sick of having to deal with everyone else in my family's 15 million tabs open in safari. now i will have my own separate web browser.

Use a different iCloud account?

 

EDIT - oh wait, do you mean you use the same device?

[bcredeur97]

its not gonna be as fast as safari. apple doesnt allow third parties to use the "Nitro" engine for javascript and stuff, you can enable third party support for nitro with "Nitrous" (i think thats what its called) in cydia if you are jailbroken though

 

 

but for the majority of iOS users, sorry keep using safari until apple lets third parties do what they want.

[Mew]

its not gonna be as fast as safari. apple doesnt allow third parties to use the "Nitro" engine for javascript and stuff, you can enable third party support for nitro with "Nitrous" (i think thats what its called) in cydia if you are jailbroken though

 

 

but for the majority of iOS users, sorry keep using safari until apple lets third parties do what they want.

 

With the release of iOS 8, any app can use the Nitro engine now. 

[bcredeur97]

With the release of iOS 8, any app can use the Nitro engine now. 

oh, sweet! I didnt know that! well thumbs up to apple for once.