Firefox Home Waiting For App Store Approval

Firefox has just announced that their not-really-a-web-browser-so-Apple-can’t-reject-us app, Firefox Home, has just been sent off to the App Store for approval

Based upon Firefox Sync technology, Firefox Home allows iPhone users to always have access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and open tabs, as well as access to their “Awesome Bar,” which allows them to browse to a site with the minimum of typing fuss. Find what you want, and Firefox Home passes on any opened pages to Mobile Safari.

There shouldn’t be any hangups getting Firefox Home through the approval process, given the existence of other Safari-competitors on the App Store, like Opera Mini or the Atomic Browser. If you’re a major Firefox user and you want to take your sessions — but not your browser — on the road with you, you can set yourself up for Firefox Home here in wait for an official thumbs up.

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Don Pope
Firefox Sync only works with Firefox (and now the iPhone, sort of).
Google bookmarks only work with Chrome.
Mobile Me bookmark sync only works with Safari (and is expensive).
They are all useless to me because of their single-browser focus.
What I need is an X-Marks app. I use X-Marks to synchronize my bookmarks across my Macs at home and my PC at work. I use it on Safari, Chrome and Firefox and could even use it on IE and Opera if I wanted to.