While Firefox has spread its wings recently from the desktop to Android and even its own mobile OS, Mozilla has no plans to introduce an iOS version, and it's apparently all Apple's fault.
CNET is reporting that Mozilla has no plans to bring its popular Firefox web browser to iOS, particularly when Apple has made it impossible for them to do it properly by porting over the rendering and Javascript engines that make the app what it is on the desktop.
While speaking at a SXSW 2013 panel over the weekend, Mozilla Vice President of Product Jay Sullivan announced that the non-profit company has no plans to return to iOS after yanking its only Mozilla Firefox Home offering from the App Store last fall.
Mozilla has been in overdrive lately cranking out desktop versions of Firefox for Mac, Windows and Linux as well as its Android app and now Firefox OS, a mobile operating system the company hopes to build around its well-loved browser.
According to NetMarketShare, Mozilla currently holds less than one percent of the mobile browser market, with Apple's Safari taking up more than 55 percent by comparison. Unfortunately, Apple does not allow third-party developers to bring their "secret sauce" to iOS web browsers, which must be build from the same WebKit used to create Mobile Safari.
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brandonwalkermedia
March 13, 2013 at 1:20pm
in other words they dont want to abide by rules. there desktop browser does NOT keep your sessions privet (as any gov. / company with a good tracker) can see what you do online... 2 its a virus magnet (granted on a mac there limited to Firefox and some other apps)
