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How about Firefox for the Apple iPhone 5s and above.

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therussian
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Can that be accomplished or are you restricted by Apple software policies?

Can that be accomplished or are you restricted by Apple software policies?

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Mozilla is looking to have a browser of sorts for iOS in next while however it will likely not use the same browser and JavaScript engines that say Firefox uses on desktop and Android due to Apple restrictions. Many of the so called browsers are shells.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/is-firefox-available-iphone-or-ipad

The article does not really give much information as I imagine the article will be updated as more information becomes available.

Mozilla did have a experimental browser for iPad back in mid 2012 called Junior, however it did not use the Gecko engine due to the restrictions.

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Mozilla is looking to have a browser of sorts for iOS in next while however it will likely not use the same browser and JavaScript engines that say Firefox uses on desktop and Android due to Apple restrictions. Many of the so called browsers are shells.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/is-firefox-available-iphone-or-ipad

The article does not really give much information as I imagine the article will be updated as more information becomes available.

Mozilla did have a experimental browser for iPad back in mid 2012 called Junior, however it did not use the Gecko engine due to the restrictions.

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