Mozilla Firefox Home App Gets Submitted
July 1, 2010
Mozilla just announced, on their blog, that they finally got around to submitting their long rumored and recently announced Firefox Home app.
If you've never heard of it, Firefox Home is an interesting concept. It allows you to keep your bookmarks, history and open tabs synced between your desktop and your iDevice. Of course you must be using Firefox and Firefox sync along the Firefox Home app. Here it is, as described by Mozilla:"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."Mozilla even put together a really nice teaser video for it:
The app, while interesting, comes as a bit of a surprise. Firefox was expected to be working on an iPhone browser of its own, especially after Opera got theirs approved. Apparently they have no such plans, and Firefox Home will simply be taking advantage of the built-in webkit engine. It's expected to be approved shortly and as usual, we'll keep you posted.
