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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. No mention of ad blocking support by JoeyRox · · Score: 5, Informative

    iOS 9's content filtering only works on Safari. I use Firefox on the desktop and was hoping this iOS version includes built-in blocking support, which it doesn't appear to have.

    1. Re:No mention of ad blocking support by Kagetsuki · · Score: 1, Informative

      FF on Android supports quite a few addons, including ABP.

  2. Re:Webkit rules by Schnapple · · Score: 5, Informative

    How soon before Mozilla ditches desktop Gecko as well?

    It's not using WebKit on iOS because it doesn't want to use Gecko, it's because it can't use Gecko. You can't release a web browser with its own rendering engine on iOS, you have to use the built-in WebKit The Chrome app for iOS also does this. What you're getting with Chrome/Firefox for iOS is the synchronization with your bookmarks and whatever other niceties you get with different interface styles.

    The one exception is the Opera browser on iOS, but it also doesn't use its own rendering engine on the phone. It renders the page on a server and then sends your phone an image of it. This is a workaround and it also makes browsing really fast but it has zero privacy or security. You probably wouldn't want to browse anything sensitive like your bank info since Opera would get to see it too. This is assuming that Opera Mini hasn't changed any, that is.

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    Schnapple