Safari is absolute crap and I don't expect FF on IOS to be any better.
Fruity Firefox: Mozilla caves to Apple, unveils iOS-friendly browser
Two years after dramatically challenging Apple to open up iOS for its browser, Mozilla has slipped out a fruity-friendly Firefox. It was briefly serving ex-Moz chief Gary Kovacs who in April 2013 said there’d be no Firefox for iPhones and iPads unless Apple relented on its WebKit-first policy. “iOS has a policy, generally …
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Friday 4th September 2015 13:05 GMT Stuart 22
Safari is absolute crap and I don't expect FF on IOS to be any better.
I didn't realise how crap it was.
I run a number of forums and recently re-skinned them with a more mobile friendly theme. We are all Android here so I checked it out with an iPhone emulator and it looked all fine. I went live extolling the virtues of the new theme. Instantly I got crapped out by the iPhone community. It wasn't there or it didn't work. I couldn't believe it - phones with, supposedly, twice the the screen resolution of an old Moto G had difficulty showing half as much.
My daughters and partners have various iPhone models so I checked it out with them for real. I was amazed. The web browsing was very limited. They didn't even realise it was bad. They thought it was the norm for a phone. They still do!
Moral is never trust an emulator.
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Friday 4th September 2015 12:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
theguardian.com constantly crashes on iOS
"a problem occurred with this webpage so it was reloaded"
Seem to be seeing this constantly on iOS 8.4.1, since iOS 8 upgrade on my Retina iPad
If you have more than one browser tab open, Safari crashes everyitme I open theguardian.com. I'm starting to think its part of their combined Apple / Guardian promo, to get iPad users to upgrade to Apple's latest tech. Making you believe there is a problem with your tech when its been 'site engineered', either that or some dodgy ad engine, but its pain, and its been months now.
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Friday 4th September 2015 12:36 GMT James O'Shea
Re: theguardian.com constantly crashes on iOS
Most intriguing. I have the Guardian's site up in Safari on my iPad Air right now. Didn't crash on going to the site, hasn't crashed on going to a few stories ("USA Welcome Australia to Chicago with Rugby World Cup in Mind", "When you're as bad at campaigns as Scott Walker, you should just give up", a few others) though I have noticed that the Guardian really, really, REALLY wants me to get 'the Guardian app' and blinks the screen, showing the app ad full-screen and then going down to merely eating the top inch or so when I first go to the site (every flipping time) and whenever I load a new story (again, every flipping time). I suspect that what you're seeing as crashes may be related to the Guardian's attempting to flog their useless app. I have ten browser tabs open, including (ick) an Outlook Web Access (or whatever new name Redmond's come up with now) tab and one pointing to Wiki and another to one of the company's systems over the VPN.
Does anyone have any other sites which repeatedly crash Safari in iOS? Really interested in finding a few, as I've never had that happen even once. Ad-based annoyances, yes, roll on iOS 9 and nuking all ads, but no crashes.
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Friday 4th September 2015 12:28 GMT wolfetone
Finally!
I can't wait for this, I loved it as a browser on Android and since moving over the the iPhone I've had to endure Safari. Although it's nice to know Apple is consistent with Safari, it's s**t on the iPhone and it's s**t on the Mac.
Daniel O'Donnell on Strictly Come Dancing and Firefox on iOS? What a time to be alive!
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Friday 4th September 2015 17:34 GMT asdf
Re: Finally!
>What do you prefer over Chrome on Android?
Well for one FF is on F-Droid and does not require a Google account in the phone or a risky apk sideload off the web to download. Besides even without a Google account its probably doing a fair amount of phoning home. FF is sadly moving in that direction more and more though too now.
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Friday 4th September 2015 14:22 GMT jelabarre59
Notfox?
Really, if Firefox is not using Gecko as it's rendering engine, just how is it differentiated from any of a multitude of *other* WebKit browsers? So we'll end up having a monoculture of browsers, and make it all that much easier for the malware writers to attack web browsers.
Thank goodness it's only on the iFad/iOS devices, a platform I would never use anyway. Hopefully the Mozilla folks won't be snookered into doing the same on the rest of their platforms. Mozilla should have held out, and *let* the AppleZombies suffer.
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Friday 4th September 2015 16:55 GMT Kevin McMurtrie
Only the one Apple way
The scary thing about iPhones is that they're extremely expensive and there's never a Plan B. Got a bug? No workaround. WebKit crashing? No workaround. 0-day? Maybe you can wait for an update to come out or maybe the upgrade is nothing less than buying a new phone.
Android OSes tend to be lower in quality but there's always a workaround for major problems. It's essentially a fancy little Linux computer so you can swap the OS and apps without much hassle. Some phone makers let you download chip firmware too, so if the shiny new 2.x doesn't work you can go back to the old reliable 1.x.
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Thursday 12th November 2015 17:48 GMT Nifty
Tried FF for IOS - the show so far - Rubbish!
Been using Mercury browser on IOS but ever since recent XcodeGhost security concerns of Chinese-written apps, been looking for another one. FF on Windows has quite rich functionality. On IOS it has nearly none except for browsing. First thing I looked for: Settings > Security > Passwords, so as to secure my web passwords away from casual iPad-borrowing fingers. Not there.