Firefox Home Now Availble For iOS

Firefox Home is now available for iOS. It isn't a full-featured web browser in its own right but the app is probably as close as we're going to get to running Firefox on an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPod. The app is pretty strange so lets take a look at what it is supposed to do. According to Mozilla's description page, "Firefox Home provides access to your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone." So basically, all FIrefox data on your Mac or PC transfers to the cloud and gets synced to Firefox Home or at least after you download and install the Firefox Sync add-on, restart-Firefox, set up a Firefox Sync account, and then log in. Although it isn't too complicated it doesn't have the one-click simplicity Safar on the Mac with Safari in iOS.You may wonder if all of this is worth the bother.

Unlike Opera Mini or Mobile Safari, Firefox Home is NOT a standalone browser. You can navigate through bookmarks and opened tabs imported from your main compter. You can search your items in history, tabs, or bookmarks. Once you are on a webpage you can perform all of the usual functions such as scrolling, zooming, clicking links, moving back and forward in history, emailing and copying links, all of which you can perform in almost any other app's in store app web browser. That's really it. There's no URL field, which makes normal web browsing impossible to do .There also isn't any way to open "tabs" like Mobile Safari and no way to edit bookmarks. The sync also seems to be one way as no browsing on the iPhone showed up in the history of the Firefox used at the computer.

Although there is no doubt that Mozilla would create an amazing mobile version of Firefox for the iPhone, but it isn't allowed to do so since Apple won't allow third-party users not based around in WebKit. If you are an avid Firefox user on your main computer and have several tabs open at once and hundreds of bookmarks saved, then this application is probably worth your time, if not, you probably want to pass for something else or stick to Safari. Firefox Home was a better browsing experience than Opera Mini was s well. Have you tried out Firefox Home? If soo, share your experience below.