Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Firefox adds client for its browser to iPhone

Mozilla said they will be releasing a new iPhone app that gives you convenient access to the bookmark keywords and titles  you have saved in Firefox.

The pages will then be rendered by the Safari web browser in iPod/iPhone/iPad, since Apple insists on the Safari WebKit web view pane being the only web rendering component in the system.

Understandable, because if you look at the statistics, you would not want Opera or IE based rendering components in the system because they are unsafe even in their own apps.  Someday things might change.  But it does not look like it so far.

This new app could be a great convenience and a nice way for Firefox users to save themselves a lot of typing effort on iPhone when they browse the web.

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posted by John Collins @ 4:45 PM

Friday, November 20, 2009

Firefox 3.5.5 seems really fast

I am really enjoying the faster browsing speed of Firefox 3.5 compared to Firefox 3.0. At the moment, I have the latest version of Firefox (3.5.5) and it is a real joy to run on my Mac.

I think I heard on a podcast today that Firefox 3.0 support will be phased out in a couple of months. So far as I know, there is not a reason to stay on 3.0 unless you are clinging to 3.0 addons that are not being supported for Firefox 3.5.

You can download Firefox from Apple or just go to the Mozilla web site to get Firefox for whatever OS you use..

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posted by John Collins @ 7:24 PM