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Why isn't Mozilla Firefox available on the MOST SELLED and MOST WISHED tablet on the market? The iPad! I mean, Firefox home is not even an universal app.

decio_crytek
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Mozilla, the Apple App Store restrictions didn't prevent. Dolphin from going to the App Store, you, Mozilla, are just not putting as much attention and effort and you should be.

Mozilla, the Apple App Store restrictions didn't prevent. Dolphin from going to the App Store, you, Mozilla, are just not putting as much attention and effort and you should be.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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"We have no plans to release the full Firefox browser for iOS. The iOS SDK agreement requires apps to use Apple's own JavaScript engine (or none at all, like Opera Mini which downloads pre-rendered pages from Opera's servers and cannot run JavaScript code in the client). Because of this, we have no supported way to distribute Firefox's rendering and JavaScript engine to iPhone users."

See: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms

Or: Will Firefox Mobile ever be released for iOS devices? No, blame Apple! | ZDNet Dec. 2010

James (doing minimal support)
James (doing minimal support)
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Mozilla is not ignoring the iOS as they are experimenting with a browser prototype called Junior. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/mozilla-shows-experimental-junior-browser-for-ios/

The key thing is this is not using the familiar Gecko layout engine due to Apple restrictions. And thanks to Apples restrictions on iOS application distribution, very few of the public may get to even try this any time soon.