TECH BITS: Firefox on you iPhone (if you have one of those that is).

It appears that iPhone and iPad owners could be getting a new browser on their devices soon, with Mozilla’s VP for its popular web browser Firefox, Jonathan Nightingale, stating that the company is keen to get Firefox on iOS.

Although Firefox is one of the world’s most popular web browsers, it currently isn’t available on Apple devices. Mozilla, the company behind the open source browser, has said in the past that Firefox would not be coming to iOS.

This was apparently due to Apple not allowing Mozilla to use its own web engine on iOS. Instead Mozilla would have to use Apple’s own JavaScript and rendering engines, like other third party browsers such as Chrome have done.

Read more:  Mozilla on your iPhone

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