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Mozilla pulls Firefox Home from the iOS App Store, posts source code to GitHub

engadget.com

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It is so ridiculous to me that the word "Github" in this article links to an engadget search for the word "Github", rather than the Github repo that the article is about.

It's hard to find a single outbound link in an Engadget (or other similar "tech blog") article, as if somehow the user will just stay on the site clicking internal links ad infinitum.

Instead, I see a link--in this case, to what should be the GitHub repo--click it, realise that I've been duped and promptly leave Engadget, reminding myself why I left last time never to return.

It's not so bad once you learn the trick. Links in body text almost never go elsewhere, but there is a link at the bottom of the article labeled "Source" which takes you somewhere interesting.

They have cast aside one of the most basic tenets of the medium.

What did you expect from an AOL property? Pageviews and SEO are more important than making the site useful.

That was added since the article was posted. There were no sources listed last night.

Here's the Github repo, since Engadget is worthless:

https://github.com/mozilla-services/ios-sync-client

They do actually have a link at the bottom, labelled github, outside the article for some reason.

Here is the original Mozilla blog post : https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2012/08/31/retiring-firefo...

A Mozilla employee has posted a fork called 'Bookmarks On The Go' which opens links in the Safari instead of using an in-app browser.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookmarks-on-the-go/id5500371...

It's not a big deal I suppose. They are supposed to be coming out with their own iOS browser, called Junior

https://air.mozilla.org/product-design-at-mozilla/

I think that Junior is just an experiment, not a forthcoming product.

So Mozilla have been distributing an iphone app that is nonfree?

No, it just wasn't on Github. The original repo was this: https://hg.mozilla.org/services/fx-home/ And it's MPL licensed.

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