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Mozilla Planning to Release Firefox iOS App in the Future

Traverse said:
No :)

I just couldn't believe there would be THIS much hate just because there's an opportunity for another iOS browser! :eek:
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What i find hilarious are the people that in this thread say who cares or firefox is done, they seem to care enough to open the topic up and reply though
 
Personally I am pretty excited about it, Firefox is my favorite of the big 3. I hope the rikaisama and hola plug ins become available.

But the hand off function of Safari is pretty rad
 
I've abandoned Firefox on my desktop as it's constantly hanging up and crashing or stopping my computer from shutting down as it's got itself confused, good god and now they want to come to iOS? NO.
 
dannyyankou said:
Firefox is so 2007.
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It's the browser of choice for most Linux users & it's the go-to browser of choice for most developers and web based applications in any environment or OS.

At my work, Firefox is the only browser that does everything without breaking. I use it for all my work apps, vSphere/vCenter, IBM IMM management, SafeQ, Veeam to name just a few plus dozens of other web apps.

Chrome is too consumer focused for serious stuff and most vendors in the enterprise don't even bother supporting IE and you can forget about using Safari.
 
Casstiel said:
Who cares about extensions when the scrollbars for Firefox windows don't even function like Mac apps? There's a *horrible*, non-standard, non-Mac app feel to Firefox. Reminds me of the nasty Java apps I'm forced to use occasionally.
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Using Firefox on OS X feels weirder than using Chrome on Windows...and that says a lot.
 
Northgrove said:
Huh? I'm not sure what the problem is with an iterative "fast" release schedule?

I think it has only brought good things to Firefox and Chrome, making it easier to follow the evolution of web standards and also provide users with earlier response to feedback in terms of fixes and improvements.

It's not like they're doing "too much too fast" and destabilize the browser; they're working in the same pace as ever, just with fewer features per release. But again, on the other hand a better response cycle. Apple's more like... "OK, thanks for the feedback. See you in a year when it's maybe solved." Done Internet Explorer style, what a role model.

But hey, the version number is smaller! Cool!

I'm also quite impressed with the Firefox performance lately. They're now beating Chrome on Google's own benchmark (!) and are simply winning when it comes to memory load. Meanwhile Google Chrome feels more sluggish than ever and Safari 8 has several reports on excessive memory usage.

I still use Safari at home for the OS X & iOS integration and improved speed lately, but I strongly believe Firefox is the next best thing (or the best if you need cross-platform support, Chrome on OS X is just... ugh!) and a very important browser to have on the market. Also since it is so independent, and its influence from a sponsor doesn't go much farther than the default search engine in a search bar. Google Chrome, in comparison, is nowadays more like a client-side platform for Google's web initiative and Google Accounts, and Safari is not platform agnostic, which can be a problem for me as well at times.
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It just really undermines the significance of the major version number and complicates recalling the history of the software. They can keep up the current release cycle but increment the major version number for more special occasions, like the recent interface overhaul. They clearly only started doing it because Chrome did it.

I've used Firefox since 2007. Firefox is good. Their version numbering is silly.
 
Hell no. I gave up Firefox when they went crazy with their release numbers, making more and more versions of the same crap without fixing anything except the ver. number.
Last time I've used FF I could see it eats up my RAM even though it was doing nothing.

So thanks, but no thanks Mozilla. Keep your lame browser to yourself.
 
velocityg4 said:
It would be great if Apple allowed the Adblock Plus plugin and NoScript. I'm tired of webpages covering half the iPhone screen with ads. Worse are the popups that cover the page.
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Those are all gone with the Untrusted Hosts Blocker from Cydia and works for every app on your device. Of course, you have to be jailbroken, but it's very useful.

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Rossatron said:
Hell no. I gave up Firefox when they went crazy with their release numbers, making more and more versions of the same crap without fixing anything except the ver. number.
Last time I've used FF I could see it eats up my RAM even though it was doing nothing.

So thanks, but no thanks Mozilla. Keep your lame browser to yourself.
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And that was in version 6...this is v34. Huge changes from there. It went from the worst memory hog to best in class.
 
best browser currently

probably the best browser for any platform, so looking forward to seeing it on iOS.
 
If the iOS version has firebug, it will be my default. The web inspector on chrome/safari/opera is nice on OSX but nothing compared to the ease of use provided by firebug.
 
Steve121178 said:
It's the browser of choice for most Linux users & it's the go-to browser of choice for most developers and web based applications in any environment or OS.

At my work, Firefox is the only browser that does everything without breaking. I use it for all my work apps, vSphere/vCenter, IBM IMM management, SafeQ, Veeam to name just a few plus dozens of other web apps.

Chrome is too consumer focused for serious stuff and most vendors in the enterprise don't even bother supporting IE and you can forget about using Safari.
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Kudos for an excellent post, you have covered everything quite nicely.

We also prefer Firefox in the design lab at work and it serves us very well. That plus the fact that having one more choice in the retail Mobile space is always an advantage.

Without it the lack of competition hurts everyone. :)
 
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