Mozilla pulls Firefox Home from the iOS App Store, posts source code to GitHub

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/01/mozilla-pulls-firefox-home-from-the-ios-app-store-posts-source

by mocy • 14 years ago

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iuqiddis• 14 years ago

It's not a big deal I suppose. They are supposed to be coming out with their own iOS browser, called Junior

https://air.mozilla.org/product-design-at-mozilla/

mccr8• 14 years ago

I think that Junior is just an experiment, not a forthcoming product.

mburns• 14 years ago

A Mozilla employee has posted a fork called 'Bookmarks On The Go' which opens links in the Safari instead of using an in-app browser.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookmarks-on-the-go/id5500371...

Hovertruck• 14 years ago

It is so ridiculous to me that the word "Github" in this article links to an engadget search for the word "Github", rather than the Github repo that the article is about.

gpmcadam• 14 years ago

It's hard to find a single outbound link in an Engadget (or other similar "tech blog") article, as if somehow the user will just stay on the site clicking internal links ad infinitum.

Instead, I see a link--in this case, to what should be the GitHub repo--click it, realise that I've been duped and promptly leave Engadget, reminding myself why I left last time never to return.

sp3322• 14 years ago

It's not so bad once you learn the trick. Links in body text almost never go elsewhere, but there is a link at the bottom of the article labeled "Source" which takes you somewhere interesting.

fromhet• 14 years ago

So Mozilla have been distributing an iphone app that is nonfree?

icebraining• 14 years ago

No, it just wasn't on Github. The original repo was this: https://hg.mozilla.org/services/fx-home/ And it's MPL licensed.

WiseWeasel2• 14 years ago

Here's the Github repo, since Engadget is worthless:

https://github.com/mozilla-services/ios-sync-client

megablast• 14 years ago

They do actually have a link at the bottom, labelled github, outside the article for some reason.

bibinou• 14 years ago

Here is the original Mozilla blog post : https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2012/08/31/retiring-firefo...

Mozilla pulls Firefox Home from the iOS App Store, posts source code to GitHub

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