Mozilla will not create a browser for the iPhone



    Regardless of what you heard about Mozilla’s intentions to release Firefox for the iPhone, and how much you want to get this browser for your iPhone, forget it. Mozilla today officially announced that there will be no Firefox for the iPhone. Instead, the community will continue to work on a distinctive Firefox Home application that is not a browser.

    There are several reasons for this situation, this is what is reported in the news posted on the company's official blog: “People are asking about whether browser-like functions will be added for Firefox Home, but there are several technical and logistical problems that make it very difficult if the browser creation task is not impossible Firefox for the iPhone. We are focusing on developing Firefox Home as a functional, cloud-based application that people will use and that people will like. ”

    Among other things, Mozilla announced that Firefox Home will be ported to BlackBerry and Symbian. What does this mean? Only one thing - the community has completely abandoned the idea of ​​creating a mobile browser. Firefox Home is an application that allows you to save information about visited pages, about open tabs in your browser and transfer such information to your mobile phone.

    In addition, Mozilla is going to port Firefox Home for the iPad - according to the developers, there are too many users asking to do this.

    By the way, despite the fact that the alpha version of the Fennec browser was released a long time ago, it has not yet been brought to mind. Among other things, the community abandoned the idea of ​​modifying this browser for the Windows Mobile OS (to be honest, I really looked forward to the appearance of this browser for this OS, sorry). Now the Fennec browser, its early version, can only be enjoyed by Android users.

    Well, it is worth noting that this is not the most pleasant news from Mozilla in recent years, you must agree.

    Via CNET

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