This is not about code, but about ability to compete.<p>First of all I&#x27;m a convinced Firefox user, I&#x27;m typing this in Firefox and I use Firefox on my Android as well and its absence has been one of my main gripes with the iPhone. I think this is great for us Firefox users. But browsers compete primarily in speed and supported open-standards. And even though I&#x27;m not one to fall often for the average Joe fallacy, I believe on average people don&#x27;t give a shit about privacy, otherwise they wouldn&#x27;t be using Windows or Google Search or Facebook. Of course, that doesn&#x27;t mean companies or organizations don&#x27;t have a responsibility to provide privacy or security, quite the contrary.<p>But if Firefox is just a shell that means (a) absolutely no extensions support, (b) in terms of security or privacy it will be as good or as bad as Safari Mobile is and (c) they won&#x27;t be able to compete either on speed or on open standards and note that Apple is doing a shitty job in supporting new web standards lately.<p>They were actually right to be reluctant in supporting iOS, because the only value of this Firefox is providing Sync for us existing Firefox users. Which has been Google&#x27;s strategy with Chrome as well. Not bad, but lets see it for what it is.