For any fans of FireFox here at iJailbreak, you will be disappointed to hear that it will not become to iOS anytime soon, if at all. At the mobile browser wars panel at South by Southwest Interactive, Jay Sullivan, Vice President of product at Mozilla, said “Mozilla’s Firefox browser will have no place on Apple devices so [...]
Posted on January 22, 2013 by Jaden Ellett
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We talked about FireFox OS quite a bit last year and although we think there is too many similarities to iOS, it still looks like it has some potential. Today the folks behind FireFox OS, Mozilla, have announced a partnership with a Spanish startup called Geeksphone that will be manufacturing two FireFox OS developer devices [...]
Firefox 18 was released today and in case you couldn’t guess what it features, I will give you a hint… speed. Firefox 18 brings about significant speed improvements, especially with JavaScript performance. The Mozilla team have actually integrated a new JavaScript compiler by the name of IonMonkey that makes web apps and games perform up to [...]
Mozilla’s Firefox OS Simulator just saw its version 1.0 release. Though Firefox phones haven’t yet seen the light of day, you can download a plugin directly from Mozilla and test out their phone interface yourself. The simulator should work with Windows, Mac, and Linux computers running the latest version of Firefox. Unfortunately, as we’ve seen [...]
It was only a matter of time before Mac OS X 10.5 started losing more and more compatibility with new software, and in the case of Firefox, it looks like that time is now. The latest version of the open source browser, Firefox 17, became available today, and the main change is the removal of [...]
It looks like Chrome won’t be the only Android browser with its own app store anymore, as Firefox appears poised to get a piece of that pie for itself. The ‘Aurora’ build of Firefox for Android, an experimental version of the browser intended for developers and brace early adopters to experiment with, has just been [...]
With the number of different platforms and browsers that are around these days, and the number of things we expect them to be able to do, it’s high time someone built a resource that will tell you what works in what browser and how to make it work. A big consortium of companies is doing [...]
Posted on September 3, 2012 by Jaden Ellett
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Firefox has been allowing developers to download nightly builds of Firefox OS, previously known as Boot to Gecko for some time now. Although you can’t actually install Firefox OS on a smartphone you can download the HTML5 and Javascript mobile platform and install it on your computer. One aspect that has not been possible to [...]
Posted on September 2, 2012 by Jaden Ellett
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Only a few days ago we told you that Mozilla released Firefox 15, which was essentially a silent update that targeted stability and performance. As Mozilla is on a new release schedule focusing on releasing regular updates to constantly improve Firefox, they have released Firefox 16 beta for desktop computers and Android. The biggest changes in [...]
Posted on August 29, 2012 by Braden
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Everyone has their favourite internet browser for multiple reasons. Some people like Google Chrome’s simple design, others like the tab organization of Firefox, and others still like Internet Explorer for some odd reason. The very popular browser, Firefox has been updated to version 15 today which adds a couple new features, but in comparison to other launches, [...]