No Firefox For iPhone


	No Firefox For iPhone

Elizabeth Woyke

3-27-2008 3:28 PM

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iphone, apple, firefox, mozilla

Elizabeth Woyke says:

The iPhone's current platform, says Mozilla, is too restrictive to make the match work. Open access should help Firefox uptake on other platforms/networks, though.

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