That changed last year when Lukas Blakk, then the release manager for Firefox, tweeted, "We need to be where our users are so we're going to get Firefox on iOS." Blakk is now at Pinterest. That spin-off of its bookmark and tab synchronization technology was canned in 2012 at the time, Mozilla cited worthier projects for the retrenchment. Instead, Mozilla created Firefox Home for iOS. "There are technical and logistical restrictions that make it difficult, if not impossible, to build the full Firefox browser for the iPhone," Ragavan Srinivasan, a product manager at Mozilla, said in 2010. A year later, the firm reiterated its stance. MozillaĪfter six years of refusing to put Firefox on the iPhone, Mozilla gave in today: The browser is built atop Apple's own rendering and JavaScript engines, requirements to make it into the App Store.Īs far back as 2009, Mozilla executives had dismissed the idea of putting Firefox on iOS. On the desktop, Mozilla relies on its own technologies for both.
Mozilla had long refused to create Firefox on iOS because of Apple's strict rules: The only browsers Apple allows into the App Store are those built atop its own rendering and JavaScript engines. Meanwhile, the goliaths - Safari and Chrome - accounted for 41% and 37%, respectively.
Firefox for Android, issued in 2011, has failed to gain meaningful traction, with a user share of the mobile browser market of less than 1%. The browser, which engineers at the open-source developer have been working on since at least last December, is another attempt by Mozilla to crack the mobile market.
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