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'Firefox Home' Submitted to Apple for App Store Review


Mozilla today announced that it has submitted its Firefox Home browser syncing app to Apple for App Store review. Rather than developing its own iOS browser as Opera has done, Mozilla has chosen to make it easier for iOS users to move between Firefox on their desktop computers and Safari on their mobile devices.

Firefox Home is a free application that provides access to your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone. Firefox Home enables access to the websites you need on the go by picking up where you left off with your desktop browsing. Firefox Home uses your browser data, securely synced from Firefox on your desktop to the cloud, to let you search and browse it quickly and efficiently. You can view the sites you want directly in Firefox Home, open them in Mobile Safari or share them with friends via e-mail. Your Firefox data is private and only you have access to it.

Use of Firefox Home will require users to have the Firefox Sync add-on installed on their desktop browser.

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Posted: 21 months ago
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Firefox Home is a free application that provides access to your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone. Firefox Home enables access to the websites you need on the go by picking up where you left off with your desktop browsing. Firefox Home uses your browser data, securely synced from Firefox on your desktop to the cloud, to let you search and browse it quickly and efficiently. You can view the sites you want directly in Firefox Home, open them in Mobile Safari or share them with friends via e-mail. Your Firefox data is private and only you have access to it.

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Posted: 21 months ago
Awesome! Now I can take a list of my favorite po...tech sites everywhere! :D
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Posted: 21 months ago
I was excited when I saw this. Thought firefox was
making a browser for the iPhone.
But after reading it's pretty meh, I know all my favorite websites off
my heart anyway. I don't use favorites on my computer to save my most used websites, I normally just save a one off site; I.e a present I am planning to buy for someone and don't want to lose/forget.

So this app is pretty pointless for me.
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Posted: 21 months ago
Hopefully this has multitasking out of the box. Otherwise...
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Posted: 21 months ago
Awesome! This is great. :)

I'm still confused though ... if Opera was allowed to make a third-party browser for the iPhone, why doesn't Firefox have a browser for the iPhone? Sounds like anticompetitive business practices by Apple that hinder competition, innovation, and progress.
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Posted: 21 months ago

Awesome! This is great. :)

I'm still confused though ... if Opera was allowed to make a third-party browser for the iPhone, why doesn't Firefox have a browser for the iPhone? Sounds like anticompetitive business practices by Apple that hinder competition, innovation, and progress.


because opera is not a browser in the sense you think of. its a fancy image viewer, with all the work being done by operas severs.
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Posted: 21 months ago
awesome, even better than a firefox browser for me.

I use firefox on Mac, but it won't sync bookmarks with iphone, and xmarks doesn't have app

now problem solved
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Posted: 21 months ago

because opera is not a browser in the sense you think of. its a fancy image viewer, with all the work being done by operas severs.


Not to mention... it looks like crap on iPhone 4 in it's current form.
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Posted: 21 months ago
Use xmarks to sync firefox bookmarks with safari, then use itunes to sync your safari books to your phone.......
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Posted: 21 months ago

Use xmarks to sync firefox bookmarks with safari, then use itunes to sync your safari books to your phone.......


Far & away the easiest way: I have my home desktop/work MacBook/iPhone/iPad bookmarks all nicely synced.
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