Firefox Home browser sync app submitted to Apple

July 1st, 2010, 17:53 Posted By: wraggster

Mozilla has submitted its Firefox Home iPhone app to Apple for approval, the company has announced.
It's not a full browser like Opera Mini, which was released on the App Store earlier this year. Instead, Firefox Home acts as a bridge between Firefox on a user's home computer, and Safari on their iPhone.
It keeps a record of their desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs, synchronising wirelessly via the Firefox Sync service.
Users can then tap on any of those sites, tabs or bookmarks in the Firefox Home app to open them in Safari.
"Are you on the go all the time? Run to a meeting, or catch a cab to the airport without thinking twice. Just pull out your iPhone and access the list of tabs you just had open on your desktop," blogs Mozilla, with one possible use case.


So why not release a full browser, if Opera is allowed onto the App Store? It's all down to what Mozilla thinks Apple will allow.
"Our understanding of browsers in the iPhone App Store is that a ‘full' Web browser like Firefox that incorporates its own Web rendering and JavaScript engines would be prohibited," said Mozilla's Jay Sullivan in April.
Then, when Firefox Home was first shown off in late May, Mozilla referred to "devices or platforms where we're unable to provide the 'full' Firefox browser (either technically or due to policy)".

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