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Firefox Mobile Threatens Mobile App Stores, Says Mozilla

Posted by timothy on from the race-to-the-bottom-price dept.

Barence writes "Mozilla claims that its new Firefox Mobile browser could be the beginning of the end for the hugely popular app stores created by Apple and its ilk. Mozilla claims Firefox Mobile will have the fastest Javascript engine of any mobile browser, and that will allow developers to write apps once for the web, instead of multiple versions for the different mobile platforms. 'As developers get more frustrated with quality assurance, the amount of handsets they have to buy, whether their security updates will get past the iPhone approval process ... I think they'll move to the web,' Mozilla's mobile VP, Jay Sullivan, told PC Pro. 'In the interim period, apps will be very successful. Over time, the web will win because it always does.'"

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  1. Or Apple just blocks firefox from the iphone... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Or, Apple DELETES firefox from your iphone without your consent.

  2. PLEASE not Javascript by dirkdodgers · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hear my plea, oh Mozilla developers. What must I do to appease your wrath?

    Please don't build another application platform on Javascript. Just make Java a first class citizen in the damn browser and be done with it.

    Heck, any proper language with a proper standard library will do. I'm not partial to Java. All I care is that it isn't Javascript. Javascript should have died in 1996.

    Javascript helps no one. It is a shitty language with shitty tools that has spawned so much shitty code that it threatens to fold the universe in on itself.

  3. Any specific gripes? I think it's pretty great. by weston · · Score: 0, Troll

    All I care is that it isn't Javascript. Javascript should have died in 1996. Javascript helps no one.

    Helps me. Nice multi-paradigm functional-OO-imperative language mix wrapped up in familiar syntax. The various DOMs have kindof sucked, and there's a few gotchas (you have to know your scoping rules, that the number type is IEEE 754 double precision, why non K&R bracing style will bite you, plus some misc other things), but overall, I find a lot to recommend it.

    Do you have specific gripes, or just general bad vibes?

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