Senin, 03 September 2012

Mozilla Pulls Firefox Home from Apples App Store


Firefox Home, an iOS solution that synchronized a user’s active tabs, history and bookmarks with the desktop version of Firefox, has been removed from the iTunes App Store at the hand of its very creators.

If you’re looking for clarification on why you can’t find Firefox Home anywhere on Apple’s App Store, Mozilla recently made a blog entry to clarify that the company is retiring the product.

Blogging on behalf of the Firefox and Services teams, poster mconnor said, “From the early days, Mozilla has been focused on empowering users across platforms and devices. We released Firefox Home as an experiment in bringing a part of the Firefox experience to iOS, focusing on Firefox Sync.”

“This project provided valuable insight and experience with the platform, but we have decided to remove Firefox Home from the Apple App Store and focus our resources on other projects,” the author wrote.

Code-savvy people looking to use and improve the underlying iOS Sync client from Firefox Home should be glad to learn that Mozilla has made the source available on GitHub, “free of Mozilla trademarks and ready for independent development.”

“As with all Mozilla projects, we ask developers to be aware of the Mozilla trademark policy,” mconnor adds.

Mozilla says it remains “committed to providing compelling user experiences across as many platforms and devices as possible and will continue to explore the best ways to provide great experiences to iOS users.”

The software company offers no details as to why it found it necessary to pull Firefox Home from the App Store, but it is likely that the company’s best interests clashed with Apple’s at a certain point.

For example, Apple originally didn’t even allow web browsers in the iOS App Store. When it finally did, it forced these apps to run on the same WebKit specification that Safari did.

The restrictions are still in place, and you can’t set a third-party web browser on iOS as your default Internet navigation tool.

Via: Mozilla Pulls Firefox Home from Apples App Store

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