Rocky

Earlier this afternoon, Mozilla submitted what would be its first
iPhone application to the App Store. No, it's not Firefox - well, not
exactly.

Read more : http://www.onechap.com/news/firefoxhome.html

BreadWithSpam@fractious.net

Rocky <rocky.rook@gmail.com> writes:

> Earlier this afternoon, Mozilla submitted what would be its first
> iPhone application to the App Store. No, it's not Firefox - well, not
> exactly.
>
> Read more : http://www.onechap.com/news/firefoxhome.html

Interesting. It basically copies your desktop machine's
firefox settings - bookmarks, etc - to the iPhone app. And it lets
you actually do web browsing within the app, but for that, it's not
using Firefox's browser engine. It uses Apple's built-in WebKit,
just like any other app on the iPhone which wants to include web
rendering may do.

Nice first pass at a compromise.

Now if only it were easy to get ad-blocking we'd be really cooking...

(I regularly use Perfect Browser on my iPhone, which uses webkit but
adds very nice tabs and a few other features. But for whatever
reason, it doesn't seem to render as quickly as Safari. Safari also
gets used all the time since the iPhone offers no means of changing
your default browser, so any time any other app wants to open a web
page in a browser (without doing so on its own), it opens it in
Safari.)



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nospam

In article <yobmxubi0n2.fsf@panix3.panix.com>,
<BreadWithSpam@fractious.net> wrote:

> Now if only it were easy to get ad-blocking we'd be really cooking...

there are browsers that have that built in. i don't remember which ones
though. there are literally dozens and dozens of browser alternatives.

if you jailbreak, it's possible to ad block via the host file.

Jochem Huhmann

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> writes:

> In article <yobmxubi0n2.fsf@panix3.panix.com>,
> <BreadWithSpam@fractious.net> wrote:
>
>> Now if only it were easy to get ad-blocking we'd be really cooking...
>
> there are browsers that have that built in. i don't remember which ones
> though. there are literally dozens and dozens of browser alternatives.

Atomic Web Browser. A cross between this and that Firefox thingy would
be just great.


Jochem

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