Mozilla Announces Firefox For iPhone

Apr 1, 2009 by Matt | Posted in General 34 Comments

Firefox Icon on iPhone Home Screen Mozilla has announced that Firefox will be coming to the iPhone soon, this summer if there are no major delays.

The browser, dubbed “iFox” internally, is a fairly full-featured port of Firefox with a full implementation of the Gecko rendering engine and the TraceMonkey JavaScript processor. It is extensible via an add-on API similar to it’s desktop cousin, and it is bundled with an exclusive mobile version of Flash.

Apple has been working with Mozilla to bring the app to the platform in a way acceptable to both parties. It will land in the App Store as a free application.

P.S. April Fools!

http://intensedebate.com/people/thaya Thaya Kareeson

Darn… You got me there. I was about to comment:

"Nice! I hope it's not an April Fools joke"
http://intensedebate.com/people/redwall_hp redwall_hp

Did my Photoshopped iPhone home screen lend any credibility to the article?

I put it together a couple months ago while waiting around somewhere without internet, and it ended up being my April Fools joke.
- http://intensedebate.com/people/thaya Thaya Kareeson
  
  Heh… Didn't notice the Firefox icon.
http://intensedebate.com/people/redwall_hp redwall_hp

I imagine the real deal would look a bit more polished, but it's good enough for the casual observer.
Muari

had me fooled
Jenny devio

Ilove my iPhone. But I hate safari. Im used to firefox and typing is a pain in the ass on the touch screen. I love the apps but I miss my windows mobile phone.
thomas huert

ha you rod. i actually searched all around google for ifox until figuring it had to have been canceled. then i came back here and noticed the comments. nice play.
NOYB

He he, should have known it was a joke when it said: it is bundled with an exclusive mobile version of Flash. It was too good to be true… Firefox and Flash, yeah right, since when did Apple approve apps people actually want?
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Are you sure it will be free?
Doktor

Yes and its already in the app store
- Zarion
  
  where?
Bum has knife

Hes being sarcastic…
Evan

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
Doug

Not funny
John

That was great! I did a google and then came back to read more. You need to get with George Noore for that TRex story ! ;- )
Abe

wow either this joke was way to nerdy or it just wasn't funny… FAIL
http://www.bob.com bob

wow this app works great, so much better than safari.
Goooy

Omg I can’t find download link ,, where is it ?
- Nate
  
  Lmao dude it’s a fake
Angry reader

Sadface, i already thought it was real
http://Www.google.com/profiles/Adam777T Adam

The internets+April 1st=Rage!
Genie

goddamn i was checking and checking in appstore and could’nt finde anything and just check the comment its a f*cking april fool hehe
Burrrrrrp!!!!!!

well there is a mobile version of firefox, but it does nøt wörk õñ thë ïPhøńë.
Bruno

found this google-ing firefox for iPhone… Oh how I hate April fools day!
- http://www.webmaster-source.com Matt
  
  It’s been more than a year, and it’s still fooling people.
Towely McTowelington

LOL, its now April 2010 and the only non-safari alternative is Opera (blurhg…) So obviously there are “major delays”…. Bummer, I like Firefox and would have loved to see it and flash on the iPhone
- http://www.webmaster-source.com redwall_hp
  
  Note: April 2010, and this was published a year ago. Hint, hint.
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Imadumbass

Googled it and looked for it in the app store, sad…
Chris Y.

You suck.
hawaii

it’s under firefox for iphone
hawaii

i.e. firefox home
- http://www.webmaster-source.com Matt
  
  That didn’t exist back in 2009. Mozilla just had to go and ruin my April Fools joke…
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