Mozilla Brings Firefox Back to iOS | Linux Today

Mozilla Brings Firefox Back to iOS

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Sean Michael Kerner
Nov 12, 2015

For the first time in Mozilla’s history, the company is releasing a full generally available browser that isn’t powered by the open-source Gecko rendering engine. Firefox releases on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android have always been powered by Gecko, but Apple’s policies do not permit developers to use any rendering engine other than WebKit, which is used by Apple’s Safari Web browser.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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