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47 mentions on Hacker News by 38 people: 2 stories, 45 comments · first 2014-12-05 · latest 2026-08-16

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  1. I hope, i will be see gecko engine at IOS https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/19063#i...
    comment by ahmetozer · 2026-08-16 · in Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
  2. …Mozilla Firefox brand on one of the biggest platforms, yet they refuse to put in the resources. 1: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/5198
    comment by HexDecOctBin · 2025-06-21 · in uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS
  3. Also Firefox Focus for iOS. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/pull/21524 seems to the relevant PR.
    comment by captn3m0 · 2024-09-23 · in Mozilla removes ad-tracking code from Firefox
  4. Here's the code, for those interested in finding the bug: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/tree/main/Brow...
    comment by johnp_ · 2024-06-29 · in How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
  5. …for the incorrect favicon URL bug is very simple, and part of the Firefox codebase not WebKit: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/blob/bd589c194... Firefox on iOS has about 200k lines of Swift. As a rough rule of thumb,…
    comment by JimDabell · 2024-06-29 · in How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
  6. …on the complexity of wedging a browser in iOS. Like maneuvering an excavator into a sandbox. [1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/12113
    comment by seism · 2024-06-29 · in How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins
  7. …and content blockers have long mentioned Orion, but there's no response from Mozilla. [0]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/7374 [1]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/9155
    comment by captn3m0 · 2024-01-20 · in Platform Tilt
  8. …doesn't support it? EDIT: I guess it was this, though I think it's been broken again more recently? https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/pull/11895 At any rate I've found Firefox on iOS/iPadOS to be surprisingly buggy.. tabs hang…
    comment by rrdharan · 2023-12-28 · in Firefox Sync actually works
  9. …logged out of stuff on first load, super annoying. I miss the syncing, but not that much. [1]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/11994
    comment by corobo · 2023-12-05 · in Firefox on the brink?
  10. …content blocker API, meaning Safari has better support for privacy-related add-ons than Firefox. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/7374
    comment by HexDecOctBin · 2023-08-11 · in Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
  11. …a different browser and at that point you might as well use Chromium on your desktop as well. [0] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/12279
    comment by sebazzz · 2023-07-24 · in SVG Chromium bug is more than 10 years old
  12. …Firefox as well. Surfing the web without a proper adblock is just a rollercoast of frustration. [1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/7374 [2] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/5198
    comment by arepublicadoceu · 2022-10-20 · in Firefox Beta for Android now supports custom add-on collections
  13. …like a known Awesomebar issue that might be improved with a future update to the Places database: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/11775
    comment by _23sd · 2022-10-10 · in Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
  14. …issue here, there's an existing browser[0] that seems to support them. Subscribe here for updates: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/9155 [0]: https://apps.apple.com/jm/app/kagi/id1484498200
    comment by captn3m0 · 2022-02-02 · in Multi-Account Containers Add-on on Mozilla VPN
  15. …WebCore. No, WebKit. Browsers on iOS use WebKit. Here’s Firefox for iOS using WebKit, for example: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/blob/main/Clie... > Source: Forked WebKit into RetroKit As far as I can see, RetroKit can’t be…
    comment by JimDabell · 2022-01-23 · in Safari and iOS users: Your browsing activity is being leaked in real time
  16. …snapshot of its main view controller, which exhibits all the things people hate about Apple's MVC: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/blob/21e9d2943... I have met Swift teams who would have proudly refactored this outdated MVC…
    comment by gurkendoktor · 2021-08-01 · in Swift Protocol Oriented Programming and Testing
  17. Not really on iOS: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/7374
    comment by captn3m0 · 2021-06-15 · in IndexedDB is completely broken in latest Safari
  18. They're referring to the Firefox iOS app, which is open source. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios
    comment by jeffgreco · 2021-02-27 · in Launch HN: Insight (YC W19) – an iOS browser with easy-to-make extensions
  19. Compare v31 with v32: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/compare/v31.0....
    comment by uallo · 2021-02-26 · in Firefox for iOS 32
  20. Looking at the iOS project linked, https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/blob/76faae8c6... , other than being written swift, it looks pretty self-contained/ok?
    comment by jan_Inkepa · 2020-07-02 · in DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
  21. …lot of time on these and it is all on device. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/Firefox-iOS
    comment by st3fan · 2020-07-02 · in DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
  22. …that is focused on password and identity management. come work on a fully Swift based project https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios https://github.com/mozilla-lockwise/lockwise-ios Apply here https://grnh.se/d5214e8c1
    comment by farhanpatel · 2019-08-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
  23. As an example, here is the source code for Firefox on iOS along with build and install instructions. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/blob/master/RE...
    comment by mch82 · 2019-03-16 · in Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
  24. …with Apple's rules for submitting apps to the App Store. Search for safari, webkit or WKWebView in https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios and you'll see how the integration goes.
    comment by pmontra · 2018-11-25 · in U.S. Supreme Court to hear Apple App Store antitrust dispute
  25. …We are looking for an iOS engineer to work on https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios and other open source products that Mozilla is working on. You'll get to work on one of the few projects on…
    comment by farhanpatel · 2017-07-03 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
  26. …We are looking for an iOS engineer to work on https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios and other open source products that Mozilla is working on. You'll get to work on one of the few projects on…
    comment by farhanpatel · 2017-06-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)
  27. …you could also learn Rust while doing this. [5] [1]: https://github.com/graetzer/Foxbrowser [2]: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios [3]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g... [4]: https://servo.org/ [5]:…
    comment by newscracker · 2016-08-30 · in Ask HN: If I wanted to make a web browser, where would I start?
  28. Check out the firefox-iOS project https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios We have lots of tests. Many of them in different styles. Both UI tests and unit tests. I'm in the process of writing tests using the new XCUI testing framework. You…
    comment by farhanpatel · 2016-07-12 · in List of open source iOS apps
  29. The single .c file, I'm guessing is: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/blob/master/ThirdPart... It appears to be the source for sqlite3, all concatenated together, which is why it's absurdly long. And it's third party, so its not…
    comment by deathanatos · 2016-01-31 · in Is It Time for Swift?
  30. > git clone https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios.git FireFox-ios > cloc FireFox-ios/ 1068 text files. 928 unique files. 303 files ignored. C 1 files 10606 blank 51150 comment 94618 code Swift 332 files 9660 blank 5808 comment 43474 code…
    comment by shawn-butler · 2016-01-31 · in Is It Time for Swift?
  31. …WITH QUALITY AND VIEWABILITY FROM PREMIUM PUBLISHERS" 2) iOS browser is a fork of Firefox iOS - https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios 3) Android browser is a fork of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.linkbubble...
    comment by vladikoff · 2016-01-20 · in Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup
  32. …isn't written in Swift (and Firefox isn't hosted on Github anyway), I'm guessing that you meant https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios .
    comment by kibwen · 2015-12-08 · in Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
  33. I guess you meant to link this one: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios In any case, Swift has been an eye opener for me, and I'm always keen to read someone else's code to learn more. Thanks for your contributions :) Does st3fan refer…
    comment by spdustin · 2015-12-08 · in Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
  34. Yeah, it’s using WKWebView: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/search?utf8=&q=WKWebV...
    comment by arm · 2015-11-12 · in Firefox for iOS now available
  35. Its actually using WKWebView https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93...
    comment by twlng · 2015-11-12 · in Firefox for iOS now available
  36. And here's the source code: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/ , which is licensed under MPL v2.0
    comment by aaronbrethorst · 2015-11-12 · in Firefox for iOS now available
  37. …before this works. If you want to build the v1.0 app with Xcode 6, then use these instructions: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/blob/v1.0/BUILDING.md If you want to build the (upcoming) v1.1 app with Xcode 7 beta, then use these…
    comment by st3fan · 2015-09-04 · in Firefox for iOS Now Available for Preview in New Zealand
  38. Here is a link to the repository, for those interested : https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios It is programmed using Swift.
    comment by rdsnsca · 2015-09-03 · in Firefox for iOS Now Available for Preview in New Zealand
  39. Yup! https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios http://www.myce.com/news/mozilla-working-on-firefox-for-ios-...
    comment by gkoberger · 2015-09-03 · in Firefox for iOS Now Available for Preview in New Zealand
  40. …right now, due for release pretty soon IIUC, that will include syncing among its core capabilities: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios
    comment by rfk · 2015-07-07 · in Revisiting how we build Firefox
  41. https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios Pretty active development. No releases on the app store, though.
    comment by rockdoe · 2015-07-03 · in Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice in iOS is
  42. …The actual work is going on here, but it sounds like it's only at the experimental stage: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/ I'm kindof curious to build it and see if it works. I read that the only issue with getting competing…
    comment by EdSharkey · 2015-02-25 · in Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards?
  43. He is referring to < https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios> . But you will note that none of those things are "in" Firefox. H.264 support in the <video> tag is implemented via platform-specific APIs (which, for example still don't work on…
    comment by derf_ · 2014-12-05 · in BPG Image format
  44. 100% of the C code is openssl edit: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/search?l=c
    comment by ndomin · 2014-12-05 · in Firefox for iOS on GitHub
  45. Yeah, this pull request fixes all of the actual errors that prevent building: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/pull/30/files
    comment by franklinho · 2014-12-05 · in Firefox for iOS on GitHub