Firefox Home coming to iPhone, brining Awesome Bar with it

By on May 27, 2010 at 11:31 AM
mobile May 27, 2010

Firefox Home Video

Yesterday, the good folks over at Mozilla announced that they will be releasing an iPhone app, based on Firefox Sync technology, called Firefox Home. Home will give iPhone users “instant access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs from their most recent browser session.” Home will also bring the Awesome Bar to the iPhone, enabling “people to get to their favorite web sites with minimal typing.” Synchronization between Mozilla’s servers and your iPhone will be encrypted from end-to-end, and the application will be free of charge. The Mozilla team said the application should be available soon — don’t muck things up with an App Store rejection Apple! We’ve go the, very short, teaser video all ready for you after the break.

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  • Norm

    This is a great way to get a whole ton of people to offer you every bit of info about their browsing, from habits, to exacts and just bundle it and ship it to your server.
    Genius Mozilla, right up there with facebook.

  • TONY

    About time! Where you been bay-bay!?

  • Mike

    brining

    • Boba Fat

      LOL *spellcheck*

  • Superhongry

    don’t worry norm,
    it won’t get approved.

  • skyy_flyer

    If it worked for Opera…

  • Darwin

    It will get approved. Interesting they are doing this since they have said publicly there was no point in it because they could not ship anything as good as mobile safari.

  • http://www.8baller.co.uk Adam

    What’s attached to the iPhone in the video? Looks like a game pad thing.

  • AGD

    game pad on iphone sounds interesting!!!!

  • russell

    This isn’t a web browser from what I can see. Its just a bookmark and history viewing app that appears to use the built in rendering APIs. Interesting idea, but it is not “Firefox”.

  • mrsoul

    will it crash several times a day like FF?

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Giorgio

    Lot of brining going down on this site lately. The staff must have a lot of caviar on their minds from the mail.com acquisition/merger/whatever party.
    :-P

  • bill

    why is every BGR story a dupe from another site?

  • MicroNix

    I can see it now….

    “Because the Mozilla app would potentially allow the syncing of malicious bookmarks, we have informed Mozilla that their application will not appear in the app store. We are doing this in the best interest of the consumer and their experience with the iProduct Line”

  • http://www.cuband.com cuband

    I have always wondered why Firefox wasn’t available for the iPhone. It’s about time! :)

  • Were you?

    What’s with the BRINING? WTF man

  • http://www.appleireports.com Steven M.

    This should be interesting to see. I assume it’s open for touch users as well?

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: 5, Providence United States

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