Mozilla Rolling Out "Firefox Home" for the iPhone

[Michael Essany]

Our developer friends behind Mozilla's Firefox have their sights set on the iPhone platform, as evidence by the brand spankin' new Firefox Home app, which is now in development. The application is exciting no shortage of iPhone and Mozilla Firefox fans because it will essentially enable users to readily access their personal desktop Firefox data.

Although Mozilla has previously rolled out a Firefox web browser for Mac OS X running on more than one Apple system, this application takes the mobile Firefox experience one step further by providing iPhone users with everything from browsing history to the tabs used during their last browser session.

In a nutshell, the app is made possible by Mozilla Sync, which synchronizes data between two desktop browsers with the Sync add-on. But when you set up Firefox Home on your iPhone, the Sync functionality enables you to access the aforementioned browser data whenever or wherever you may roam. At least that's how Mozilla is describing the process to work.

Unfortunately for Firefox fanatics, Mozilla is not going to push ahead with a native iPhone browser (even though a version of Firefox for Android is already in the works). For now, though, Firefox Home should pacify many. And, in case you're wondering, the app will even work on the iPad, although Mozilla warns that it isn't optimized to do so.

[redmcmac]

Wow

[Evilsaint]

This is good news for a Mozilla user like me

[ecd5000]

next their gonna make thunderbird mail app. maybe mozilla should make there own phone like everyone else does these days.

[Cyruss1989]

Just switched to Opera on my Netbook, but guess I give it a try

[wolverinemarky]

interesting apples allowing all these new browsers on the iphone but i guess it doesnt really matter if they do because you already bought the phone might as well keep you semi happy lol

[confucious]

interesting apples allowing all these new browsers on the iphone but i guess it doesnt really matter if they do because you already bought the phone might as well keep you semi happy lol

From the post above:

Unfortunately for Firefox fanatics, Mozilla is not going to push ahead with a native iPhone browser

[mardinn]

GO FIREFOX!!
I really hope they will push internet browsing in iPhone forward!

[Zehlek]

When is this supposed to be available? I can't wait

[CaptainChaos]

They should release the Firefox browser in Cydia.

[Zehlek]

They should release the Firefox browser in Cydia.

I definitely agree, that would be sweet.

[extremzocker]

Firefox ftw

[sucram6791]

they need to make their own broswer, opera did it so y couldnt they?

[mikerlx]

Love firefox

[slayorktc]

wait.. let me get this straight.. i am browsing on my home computer (say 5 tabs open) then grab the ipad and click sync and all of the tabs are now open and im out the door still browsing from the ipad??

[iLoveWindows&iPhone]

Google should relase a chrome browswer with flash support!!! Haha

[AjBlue]

next their gonna make thunderbird mail app. maybe mozilla should make there own phone like everyone else does these days.

doubt it, firefox has no where near the resources for something like that, and with google coming in the situation i doubt they will want to go to war with them, im not sure but i think google might actually pay mozilla to have google as the main search engine on firefox. Also if they make a thunderbird app i sure hope they improve thunderbirds features as its not really amazing.
apple mail app can do pretty much everything thunderbird would do. Also they are way to focused on keeping 1st place in the browser wars, they are slacking in terms of speed right now and have a lot of bugs and problems that need ironing. firefox 4 should give a big upgrade to speed but no one knows for sure until its out. Opera is fastt. even though it crashes a lot on mac, but 10.50 is still basically in the beta phase still for mac

[nautical79]

Like other Messany News. Useless, theres nothing relevant here, why they keep on leting this guy to write stuff. Why dont you wait til its out and make a review of it, that will be more useful.

[Jahooba]

Dear. Lord. Yes! I would love to be in sync with all my data no matter what device I'm on. And the best part about this is that it's mobile agnostic -- I can use it on webOS too (I have an iPhone spoofing agent on my Palm Pre).

[wannagotopopeyes]

So what does this app actually DO if it isn't a browser? Maybe I'm dumb but I'm a bit confused...