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Firefox Home Submitted to Apple App Store

macduke said:
Haha, I don't think this could possibly keep up with the number of tabs I regularly keep open in Firefox!
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Firefox for Mac can't even keep up with the number of tabs I keep open in Firefox 😀 - after you hit somewhere between 150 and 250 tabs, Firefox tends to crash after a few hours due to no more allocated memory 😀

(Firefox has a built in 2GB memory cap that it can allocate up to that I routinely hit...hopefully Firefox 4 beta that just came out moved to 64 bit memory management...I should investigate that...)
 
ProwlingTiger said:
Why, again, can't we have an actual Firefox browser?
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Because that would violate the terms of the developer agreement prohibiting duplication of Apple features.

I guess the reason we have Opera Mini is that it is not the same as Safari [in the sense you are not getting the actual webpage, but a compressed image of the site sent via Opera's servers].
 
iphones4evry1 said:
Awesome! This is great. 🙂

I'm still confused though ... if Opera was allowed to make a third-party browser for the iPhone, why doesn't Firefox have a browser for the iPhone? Sounds like anticompetitive business practices by Apple that hinder competition, innovation, and progress.
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Ever thought, maybe Firefox doesn't want to "waste time" making a browser for the iPhone? They saw what happened to Opera, and that's a Webkit browser. (Opera got downloads the first week, some fans, but mostly yawns. It's fast, but the images suck, and its use of proxies is a security minefield.)

Firefox is not a Webkit browser, so they'd be faced with the gargantuan task of putting their image-rendering on the iPhone.

In other words, you're jumping to conclusions about "tyrannical Apple" that aren't justified here.
 
ruinfx said:
you might want to do a quick google search for "firefox android" before hitting the reply button. if you had, you would realize that firefox is coming android but is still in alpha.
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And how did what you say contradict what he said? Gecko is not ready. Firefox is "coming" to Android, is it? You go ahead and put an alpha on your phone.

Gecko is not ready to be on any mobile device. We'll see when it reaches a workable beta. And by the way, I'm thinking that if it's made with Apple's tools, they'll have no problem with putting Firefox Mobile on the App Store.
 
Speaking of Firefox

For at least the last few months, Firefox on my Mac has gotten slower... and slower... and slower. Now I barely use it. So I decided to try the beta of 4.0. What could I lose? Now it's even slower and it crashes all the time.

So for the first time in years, my computer has no workable version of Firefox.
 
alphaod said:
Because that would violate the terms of the developer agreement prohibiting duplication of Apple features.
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That's not the problem.

Applications aren't allowed to interpret uncompiled code (like HTML or Javascript).

A web browser really needs to do that in order to function correctly.

Opera gets around that because all the code is interpreted on their servers and then sent to the phone in a pre-rendered fashion.

That is very limited, but Opera has been doing this for a number of years on different devices so it was easier for them to get it working on the iPhone.
 
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