{"id":7008,"date":"2014-12-03T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=7008"},"modified":"2014-12-03T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:33:52","slug":"firefox-is-headed-to-ios-browser-restrictions-be-damned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2014\/12\/03\/firefox-is-headed-to-ios-browser-restrictions-be-damned\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox is headed to iOS, browser restrictions be damned"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After years of vowing not to bring Firefox to the iPhone and iPad, Mozilla is changing its tune\u2014and is presumably willing to work with Apple\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be where our users are so we\u2019re going to get Firefox on iOS,\u201d Mozilla Release Manager Lukas Blakk wrote on Twitter. TechCrunch believes he was paraphrasing Jonathan Nightingale, Mozilla\u2019s Vice President for Firefox, who revealed the plans during an internal company event.<\/p>\n

Mozilla isn\u2019t a complete stranger to iOS. Four years ago, the organization released Firefox Home, which synced bookmarks and tabs from other devices but was not a full-fledged browser. Mozilla shut down the app in 2012. While Mozilla now lets users sync their tabs and bookmarks with an online login, iOS users have been left out, potentially making Mozilla less attractive as a whole.<\/p>\n

In the past, Mozilla has said that it wouldn\u2019t offer Firefox on iOS because Apple doesn\u2019t allow third-parties to use their own browsing engines. Chrome, for instance, is based off the same WebKit rendering engine as Safari, despite having its own engine called Blink for other platforms. Mozilla has bemoaned this dominance of WebKit as promoting a \u201cmonoculture,\u201d in which mobile webmasters only target WebKit to the exclusion of other browsers and open standards.<\/p>\n

Unless Mozilla has a trick up its sleeve, it seems the organization will freeze its anti-Webkit crusade as it tries to win back lost users.<\/p>\n

The story behind the story: While celebrating Firefox\u2019s 10-year anniversary last month, Mozilla stressed its newfound emphasis on privacy, with new features like a \u201cForget\u201d button and support for the DuckDuckGo search engine, which doesn\u2019t track users. For Mozilla, bringing similar features to iPhone and iPad users may be worth adopting Webkit, even if it is a loveless embrace.<\/p>\n

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