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Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS

Posted by timothy on from the convergence dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox for iOS worldwide. You can download the new browser for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch now directly from Apple's App Store (iOS 8.2 or later required). Until today, Firefox for iOS was available as a public preview, and only in New Zealand. Also at Ars Technica.

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  1. Speak for yourself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I personally love the continuous subtraction of useful features that I get with firefox. Losing the ability to go back/forward, the ability to view page source, the ability to quickly and logically get to what I need through a meaningful user interface -- those upgrades were great, but what really made me a fan for life is when they removed the ability to stop a page from loading. Nothing puts a smile on my face more than waiting it out for a rogue webpage, watching my computer slow to a crawl, powerless to do anything about it. Now that's a feature worth bragging about.

    In conclusion, I hope to see more subtraction of useful features in the future. Perhaps one day we can reach the Holy Grail of web browsing, where you are no longer allowed to actually view web pages (big deal, right), but instead the browser will spit out a brief verbal summary of what you've "missed". Go Firefox!