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Mozilla: No Plans for Full Firefox Browser on iPhone

In the 1990s, when Microsoft refused Netscape Navigator on Windows computers, the Federal Government stepped in because Microsoft was violating Antitrust Laws.

Today, when Apple locks out other browsers and third-party programs from the iPhone, WHERE ARE THE ANTITRUST REGULATORS ????
 
iphones4evry1 said:
In the 1990s, when Microsoft refused Netscape Navigator on Windows computers, the Federal Government stepped in because Microsoft was violating Antitrust Laws.

Today, when Apple locks out other browsers and third-party programs from the iPhone, WHERE ARE THE ANTITRUST REGULATORS ????
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Someone doesn't know their tech history.
 
At least Mozilla is honest. I've always wanted a nice mobile browser that works as great as Firefox, but in all honesty it could never be the same on such a small form factor... Thanks for trying, Mozilla. Thanks anyway.
 
No loss. An alternative to Safari's constant crashes would be nice, but not Firefox's giant bloatedness. The iPhone doesn't have enough RAM to cope with all those memory leaks.
 
Perhaps a little more research would've been appropriate for this article?

If you actually read the Mozilla website:
iPhone/iPad/iPod
We have no plans to release the full Firefox browser for iOS. The iOS SDK agreement requires apps to use Apple's own JavaScript engine (or none at all, like Opera Mini which downloads pre-rendered pages from Opera's servers and cannot run JavaScript code in the client). Because of this, we have no supported way to distribute Firefox's rendering and JavaScript engine to iPhone users.
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https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms
 
Why do I want Firefox with its own page layout engine when you already have a pretty good browser with a GREAT page layout engine with Safari, which uses the Webkit page layout engine?

Now, if we can get Google Chrome on iOS 4.x, that would be a different story....
 
I personally can't even stand when apps render web pages in app, I think the app should slide over and Safari slide in. Guess you can guess how I feel about needing a 3rd party browser.
 
res1233 said:
The reason for this is opera is the only one that renders the webpage server-side, so it doesn't actually have an engine in-app, while other browsers have their own engine.
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Note that the proxy rendering server is only true of Opera Mini, not Opera Mobile which is a full standalone browser.

Apple doesn't let you use anything other than the webkit engine, so it is impossible at this time to completely implement any other browser, except for those browsers that use webkit, like chrome.
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I wonder if Apple's latest turnaround on their rules has changed this. Isn't it now allowable to have some interpreted code ?
 
kdarling said:
I wonder if Apple's latest turnaround on their rules has changed this. Isn't it now allowable to have some interpreted code ?
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You cannot interpret downloaded code outside of Apple's provided interpreters. The rules changes have to do with application code that is included with applications.

Of course this requirement in Apple's developer agreement is laughable, because any data downloaded from the Internet could be considered "interpreted code".
 
chubad said:
Not a big deal as Safari works just fine on the iPhone.
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I would go further to say, there isn't even a chance of matching Safaris performance on the iPhone.

The best anyone can ever hope to accomplish is adding a feature at the cost of performance.
 
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