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

28 points by mocy 14y ago

iuqiddis 14y 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/ https://air.mozilla.org/product-design-at-mozilla/
- mccr8 14y ago
  I think that Junior is just an experiment, not a forthcoming product.
mburns 14y 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/id550037184?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookmarks-on-the-go/id5500371...
Hovertruck 14y 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 14y 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.
  - sp332 14y 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.
    - snsr 14y ago
      They have cast aside one of the most basic tenets of the medium.
      - sp332 14y ago
        What did you expect from an AOL property? Pageviews and SEO are more important than making the site useful.
    - WiseWeasel 14y ago
      That was added since the article was posted. There were no sources listed last night.
fromhet 14y ago
So Mozilla have been distributing an iphone app that is nonfree?
- icebraining 14y ago
  No, it just wasn't on Github. The original repo was this: https://hg.mozilla.org/services/fx-home/ https://hg.mozilla.org/services/fx-home/ And it's MPL licensed.
WiseWeasel 14y ago
Here's the Github repo, since Engadget is worthless: https://github.com/mozilla-services/ios-sync-client https://github.com/mozilla-services/ios-sync-client
- megablast 14y ago
  They do actually have a link at the bottom, labelled github, outside the article for some reason.
- bibinou 14y ago
  Here is the original Mozilla blog post : https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2012/08/31/retiring-firefox-home/ https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2012/08/31/retiring-firefo...

28 points by mocy 14y 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/ https://air.mozilla.org/product-design-at-mozilla/

mccr8 14y ago
I think that Junior is just an experiment, not a forthcoming product.

mburns 14y 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/id550037184?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookmarks-on-the-go/id5500371...

Hovertruck 14y 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 14y 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.
- sp332 14y 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.
  - snsr 14y ago
    They have cast aside one of the most basic tenets of the medium.
    - sp332 14y ago
      What did you expect from an AOL property? Pageviews and SEO are more important than making the site useful.
  - WiseWeasel 14y ago
    That was added since the article was posted. There were no sources listed last night.

fromhet 14y ago

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

icebraining 14y ago
No, it just wasn't on Github. The original repo was this: https://hg.mozilla.org/services/fx-home/ https://hg.mozilla.org/services/fx-home/ And it's MPL licensed.

WiseWeasel 14y ago

Here's the Github repo, since Engadget is worthless: https://github.com/mozilla-services/ios-sync-client https://github.com/mozilla-services/ios-sync-client

megablast 14y ago
They do actually have a link at the bottom, labelled github, outside the article for some reason.
bibinou 14y ago
Here is the original Mozilla blog post : https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2012/08/31/retiring-firefox-home/ https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2012/08/31/retiring-firefo...