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Mozilla: No Firefox for iPhone, But Firefox Home Expanding

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Sep 28, 2010, 2:50 PM   by Eric M. Zeman

In a blog post today, Mozilla details its road map for its mobile products. It said that it is working to bring its Firefox Home application to the Symbian and BlackBerry platforms, which should be at some point in the coming months. Firefox Home syncs browsing sessions between desktops and mobile phones. Though Mozilla offers Firefox Home to Apple's iOS platform and the iPhone, Firefox said in no uncertain terms that it is not developing a mobile version of Firefox for the iPhone. Mozilla is still working on Fennec for other platforms, including Android.

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bluecoyote

Sep 28, 2010, 3:27 PM

Give up and die

Firefox is a dinosaur. Okay, maybe not a dinosaur... that's Internet Explorer, but although Firefox is a nice web browser, it's very much a legacy piece of software. Their adoption of HTML5 has been slow compared to Webkit. They still think Ogg Theora has a chance. Their browser core was never mobile-optimized, and they didn't bother starting until way after WebKit took off. Icing on the cake- WebKit does a better job rendering *and* has better developer tools.

I mean seriously, how much longer are they going to drag out that @!King Fennec browser? What is it now, 3 years old and still not ready for primetime? Webkit is fast becoming its own application platform, and FireFox is still trying to bring 2003's desktop internet experie...
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You really are full of crap. One of those truly gifted individuals good at spreading false information.

Legacy software? Are you nuts? Have you tried using, say, FF 4.0 beta 6? It's easily as good as Chrome/Opera/IE9. Does Chrome offer the number ...
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Apple users saying something sucks just because it is not developed for the SH!T-tastic Mac or any of the iCrap phones.....
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