June 18, 2012

Mozilla Browser to prepare your Junior for iPad

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Following in the footsteps of Yahoo's Axis and Opera Mini that was present earlier, Mozilla Firefox browser in addition to finally develop for Apple iPad to enliven the browser market in tablet and Apple.

In addition to Yahoo's Axis and Opera mini, have attended the various browsers that compete in the market the iPad tablet, call it Atom, Dolphin browser, Mercury, Skyfire and of course Apple, Safari browser artificial.

Mozilla decided to participate in the war of the browsers on the iPad by developing a browser called Junior that will bring a variety of features to compete with other browsers.

Many people who wonder why Mozilla does not use the Firefox name or develop Firefox for browser on iPad?
It is related that Apple's policy does not allow other WebKit browser engine present in the iPad. WebKit browser engine is used by Safari and Google Chrome.

The Firefox Browser to the desktop using a machine called Gecko, therefore Mozilla decided not to use the Gecko and Firefox browser name to launch the iPad.

This is the prototype of the Mozilla browser Junior for iPad that uses the WebKit engine that brings a variety of features to surf through the iPad tablet.

"So here's a fun thing. We wanted to create something completely new. We would like to look into how we can rediscover the browser in a new form factor, "said Alex Limi.


As quoted from The Verge, Mozilla's interface is composed of junior addres bar at the top of the application and there are two buttons for media interaction between the user's browser.

Mozilla sacrificing features tab in order to make the browser more lightweight and simple Junior as well as convenient to use.

Mozilla is currently still in development stage Junior or prototype, changes or additional features are still possible, you curious? Let's wait for its official release.

Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.


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