Mozilla submits Firefox Home to Apple App Store, considers approval a formality (video)
By Vlad Savov 
posted July 1st 2010 2:23AM
posted July 1st 2010 2:23AM
posted July 1st 2010 2:23AM
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We'll see.
Only if AdBlock is involved :)
@Seb6554 Oh yeah :)
@Tuan X Exciting times.
"Breaking news: The temperature in Hell today dropped several degrees as a result of Apple approving Mozilla's Firefox Home application for iOS. Tortured souls rejoice as the first signs of frost appear on the outer banks of the region of Hell and as they finally have a true alternative to web browsing on their iPhones."
@Firehazzel LOL THAT SHIT WAS FUNNY AS FUCK!
@Tuan X Yeah... I can see my self going home to find all tabs closed :(
@Tuan X this isnt a new browser, basicly it takes tabs/booksmarks you have in firefox, and opens them in safari. thats all it is. look at the android alpha version, basicly the same thing, its not very functional.
@Seb6554
and all the add-ons that we can't live without
@Seb6554 This isn't a browser so addons are not involved.
This is an iphone specific lite version of Firefox Sync. Anything you open will be rendered using Apple's webkit engine not Mozilla's Gecko.
Yeah, the comments aren't sinking in so I'll use some caps:
THIS ISN'T THE FIREFOX BROWSER FOR THE IPHONE, IT'S JUST BOOKMARKS SYNCING!!!!!
@Firehazel
That is ironic since in Dante's Inferno the place that was the deepest part of hell was cold (frozen actually...). It was frozen so much so that the Devil was actually partially encased in ice...
@Firehazel : They have iPhones in Hell?
I knew it! :P
@Picklesworth Everybody knows that the Devil would want to torture his souls with walled gardens, and limited hardware choice. A God would never do that to his people... lol.
Yeah, syncing my tabs from Firefox to an iPhone would be impossible, since as of this post I have 632 tabs open (most of them paused by savememory, but you get the point).
If you like having more than 8 tabs open in Firefox, this probably won't give you the experience that you're looking for. Good start, though.
@Dante of the Inferno Would would you want that many tabs open!? Doesn't finding the right tab become a pain?
@Air2ground If it's porn every tab is the right tab lol
@Dante of the Inferno
urs is a rare case.. so i dont think they will waste their time to incorporate handling 632 tabs. .u shud stick to desktop
@Air2ground
Not really. The drop down list of all tabs is in the upper right corner. The up, down, home, and end keys work on the list. I may one day look around for an add-on that can search for tab titles.
@Dante of the Inferno I too have aspergers syndrome.
@Console fanboy
hahah damn, i actually laughed while reading engadget
@Dante of the Inferno
I also have like 5-10 Tabs which is too much for the average mobile browser, but we'll see how ff handles that.
@Air2ground tabs aren't meant as a replacement for bookmarks. What you're doing is moronic.
@Randazzo Shouldn't you be telling Dante that? I try to keep Chrome under eight tabs.
@Tres
Ha. I used to job coach a kid with asperger syndrome and holy crap did he have some wild stories. He was definitely a handful sometimes.
@Randazzo
Not to mention the memory leaks! Even an amazing program like Firefox isn't immune!!
Somewhere in Mozilla headquarters, a team of programmers is crying because of the torture you're making their program endure.
I'll bet on a swift denial by apple for duplication of functionality
@spartandre217
Oh hai thar.
@spartandre217 So, why did they approve of opera then?
@Bahumbug Opera must have paid a ransom of some sort (wink wink)
@DrScope
Haha Fandroids are so f*ckin so corny wink wink
@spartandre217
Of course they'll allow it, there are already dozens of WebKit based browsers on the AppStore, and with Firefox Home, Mozilla is releasing their first WebKit browser. Great move to admit that Gecko isn't ready for smartphones yet.
@abugida
Guess I missed putting jk after the post.
I love this whole somewhat obscure app approval process :-P
I'll bet on a swift denial by apple for duplication of functionality.
Any takers?
@spartandre217 doubt it...I think it's going to pass.
@spartandre217
Duplicating your post. I see what you did there.
@spartandre217
I'll take it. It'll be approved, if there aren't detrimental problems in the app itself. What could be the justification of denying Firefox while accepting Opera?
Chrome for iPhone, OTOH, is a different story ;-)
@spartandre217
This is Firefox branding and functionality wrapped around Apple's rendering engine. There will be no issues with approval.
@Dante of the Inferno
Teehee!!!
:-)
Brilliant arent I
ummm yea i dont wanna be "that guy"
but i would really love to see this come to android
Sent from my EVO 4G
haha just had to do that
@samsoniteace amen brother
@samsoniteace Fennec (FireFox Mobile) is on it's way, and is currently in beta. It'll include all the syncing abilities. This is just a work around for the iPhone since they can't submit a browser thats not based on the Safari engine in the Apple App store. FireFox Home will use Safari to browse and just add syncing functionality.
@TheGM that seems to defeat the purpose of naming it firefox.
and thank you for that info =)
deff cheers up my anticipation even tho i dont use the browser much on android
Coming up next: iChrome navigator...
I'm not sure if Engadget editors are just trolling now or what but why would there be an issue? This isn't the FireFox browser. It's clearly just a syncing tool that uses WebKit to render pages. It's not much different than Atomic Browser or any of the other dozens of apps like it already on the App Store.
@UptownDonkey
Engadget editors are almost always trolling. It makes the most money.
If we continue to react to their trolling can you blame them?
as long as theyre not using private api's ;p
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