Firefox Home for iPhone bows in the App Store

Alright, we know that playing with the Firefox 4 beta has been a full-time job for you Mozilla fanboys and girls out there, but let's try something fresh on for size, shall we? Firefox Home has finally been whisked into the App Store on news that Apple gave it the green light, meaning you can now sync your bookmarks and open tabs between your desktop and your phone. Some of us can go a few minutes without browsing the web in the off chance we're away from our PCs... aw, who are we kidding? No we can't -- and neither can you, so you may as well grab it if you're using Firefox and an iPhone.

[ThreeDee912 Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:17AM]

Rated 17+ for drug references, nudity, violence, etc.

Really, Apple?

[kizuna Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:23AM]

@ThreeDee912 Sigh, the hypocrisy of it all.

[prewreckless Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:29AM]

@ThreeDee912 Well... it does use the web...

[Aaquibn Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:36AM]

@ThreeDee912

It's like this for all web browser and makes sense. Someone could potentially access all of that through the app. THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN!!!!

[juanvaldez Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:57AM]

@prewreckless So does the iPhone, but do they put +17 on the packaging?

[vjk2005 Posted Jul 16th 2010 1:23AM]

@juanvaldez No, because iPhone comes with Parental Controls built-in while Firefox Sync as well as other browsers and apps rated 17+, don't.

[iName Posted Jul 16th 2010 1:24AM]

@EA575 they display that for any app that uses the internet in any way shape or form. its so fucking STUPID.

[brett maxwell Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:19AM]

No!!! I've been so happy with Chrome, but this might send me back to FF.

[kizuna Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:23AM]

@brett maxwell aw, c'mon. Don't complain about options :P

[LennyTheDub Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:20AM]

Not in US or Canadian store.

[Jaylittles531 Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:24AM]

Cant seem to find it.....

[kizuna Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:25AM]

I hope the android version is released soon. *hides from flames*

[prewreckless Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:32AM]

@kizuna May take a little longer since we're getting the whole browser (Fennec) with weave, which syncs between Fennec and Firefox the same way Firefox Home does.

[system22 Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:09PM]

@kizuna this iphone user is cool with your android lovin!

[cookiebits Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:28AM]

It might take a while show up in search index, but you can get it via link provided (like I did).

I'm really liking it so far and I've been looking forward to this for a while. And for a 1.0 it's pretty impressive.

Also I noticed last night Xmarks now has an iPhone app.

[Marburg Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:36AM]

Nice and fast on the iPhone 4

[Dafrety Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:46AM]

@HighestRanked2
Unfortunately this isn't actually Firefox just yet. It's just bookmark and tab syncing I think. Still useful, but not as amazing as it could be.

[Dafrety Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:48AM]

This will help me with my bookmarks, though honestly I'd rather see something like Xmarks show up. I already have that set up exactly how I want it and love it.

[Lee1019 Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:52AM]

This app is probably a battery burner. Firefox and Fennec for winmo are RAM hogs. Firefox will die, hopefully soon.

[Dafrety Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:58AM]

@Lee1019
Please read the article. This isn't Firefox, it just syncs your bookmarks and tabs through Safari.

[Lee1019 Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:41AM]

@Dafrety My Mistake, In that case I find this impressive. I Wish there were more applications that do this. I hate when I listen to music or a podcast on my computer while I sync my Zune. I wish my Zune knew what, song, podcast, playlist ect. and it was seamless when I move from one screen to another. I like to watch netflix on the go, then come home to my ps3 and pick up where I left off

[appleboy Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:52AM]

For iPad please

[skapandi Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:53AM]

This app, so far, is pretty much useless.

[Darkhunter139 Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:57AM]

@skapandi agreed lol

[iName Posted Jul 16th 2010 1:24AM]

@skapandi lol seriously.

[appleipad Posted Jul 16th 2010 1:00AM]

People use fiefox ?

[Tes Posted Jul 16th 2010 1:14AM]

@appleipad

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

An uninformed troll is the worst kind of troll.

[Insomnihack Posted Jul 16th 2010 1:45AM]

I've been using Atomic web browser for months as it $hits all over mobile Safari. There's proper tabs and 20% more screen real estate in fullscreen.

Does this app sync your bookmarks to safari? Or do you have to use the actual app to browser the web with your synced bookmarks?

[Gregorian Posted Jul 16th 2010 2:01AM]

XMarks for iPhone, please.

Can a developer hack into Safari's bookmarks and change them?
I suspect not as it could lead to some nasty abuses.

[JonAhdout Posted Jul 16th 2010 3:17AM]

What is that awesome case?

[shanklin89 Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:14AM]

So what are we all just going to start throwing the term fanboy in every comment of dieing devotion to something? Only fanboys I know are apple trolls! Lets not make this a universal bashing term yea?

[The Joker Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:35AM]

@shanklin89 typical fanboy comment

[system22 Posted Jul 16th 2010 12:12PM]

@The Joker ha dood. your comment was entirely hypocritical. take a minute to process that. stop trying to turn any post about something iphone into a phone war...

[Fanman1 Posted Jul 16th 2010 4:53AM]

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