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Firefox on iPhone?

dukebound85 said:
what a bad thread title.....:rolleyes:
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Why? I am all for it even if it requires a jailbreak. Safari is the biggest POS on the iPhone. It crashes more often than not. Plus hopefully Firefox would add Flash and Java so that we really could have "Not the watered down internet, but the internet on your phone".

And to the people that say "Safari doesn't crash on me". I can almost guarentee that it will if you visit our local news site, www.newzjunky.com and browse for more than 2 minutes. :eek:
 
Excellerator said:
Why? I am all for it even if it requires a jailbreak. Safari is the biggest POS on the iPhone. It crashes more often than not. Plus hopefully Firefox would add Flash and Java so that we really could have "Not the watered down internet, but the internet on your phone".

And to the people that say "Safari doesn't crash on me". I can almost guarentee that it will if you visit our local news site, www.newzjunky.com and browse for more than 2 minutes. :eek:
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why? because it makes it sound as if there is a firefox for the iphone thats why lol

talk about threadbaiting lol
 
Excellerator said:
Why? I am all for it even if it requires a jailbreak. Safari is the biggest POS on the iPhone. It crashes more often than not. Plus hopefully Firefox would add Flash and Java so that we really could have "Not the watered down internet, but the internet on your phone".
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And as you should be well aware of, Firefox doesn't add either of the two, as they are external plugins to Firefox. So you'd still have to get them from Sun or IBM (Java), and Adobe (Flash), which neither (to my knowledge) have any sort of tool/plugin available for the iPhone, jailbroken or not.

So FF only gets you another browser. You're still SOL on Flash/Java.

BL.
 
bradl said:
And as you should be well aware of, Firefox doesn't add either of the two, as they are external plugins to Firefox. So you'd still have to get them from Sun or IBM (Java), and Adobe (Flash), which neither (to my knowledge) have any sort of tool/plugin available for the iPhone, jailbroken or not.

So FF only gets you another browser. You're still SOL on Flash/Java.

BL.
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Adobe is all for Flash on the iPhone, that is if Apple allows it. I guess they are beta testing now according to a recent thing I read. (It may have been on Macrumors.)
 
Excellerator said:
Adobe is all for Flash on the iPhone, that is if Apple allows it. I guess they are beta testing now according to a recent thing I read. (It may have been on Macrumors.)
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I know that.

But my statement still stands. Adobe would have to release Flash, not Firefox. So having FF, or Opera, or any other browser won't matter if Adobe doesn't put it out, so FF is irrelevant, jailbroken or not.

BL.
 
You dont need FF

i use Firefox on my mac because all safari 3 does is drag but mobile saf and saf 4 work pretty well and mac just released iphone soft 3 today and it has a flash plug-in for mob saf
 
Apple would not approve. It's a security thing for them more than anything else.

Besides, why would you want to? Safari is already better than any mobile browser out there.
 
BklynKid said:
Apple would not approve. It's a security thing for them more than anything else.

Besides, why would you want to? Safari is already better than any mobile browser out there.
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actually, fennec looks pretty nice.
 
I think mini opera had an app in the app store but it was pulled shortly after, but i remember someone on here had it.
 
I created a mobile browser for iPhone using the 3.0 SDK and Beta 4.

I called it HelloWeb.

I didn't submit it to the App Store yet because of 2 reasons:

1. It would only use Edge for whatever reason. :confused:

2. The user interface was just an address bar and and MBViewer.

I couldn't get the Forward/Back/Tab buttons working at all.

Anyway,

App Store/Jailbreak/Etc

It is possible.

Edit: http://gizmodo.com/5072333/opera-for-iphone-ready-to-go-if-not-for-apples-app-store-policies
 
I want...I want...

I don't see any of them coming to the iPhone unless you JB. Of course they need to make it first. I am sure they have better things to do though than adapt a browser for a platform that they can't officially be used on.
 
i use IE on my PC love it works great wouldnt use anything else especialy Safari (Blech!!!)

but thats my opinion
 
Google chrome for iPhone now that would be good I mean i don't want a bloated browser with tons of add ons cough cough firefox
 
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