Mozilla has submitted Firefox Home for iPhone
Perhaps encouraged by Opera’s success in getting Opera mini passed Apple’s fickle and sometimes unpredictable App Store nannies, makers of the world’s best-loved open-source browser have created and submitted Firefox Home for approval. Interestingly, this isn’t a Gecko-based app.
Back in May, Mozilla said it would created a version of Firefox for iPhone. Now, according to a blog post report, they’ve finished Firefox Home and submitted it to Apple for approval.
Unlike most every other Mozilla product, Firefox Home is based on WebKit and not their own Gecko browser engine. Additionally, the browser features Firefox Sync, a cloud-based syncing technology that promises to securely sync your desktop bookmarks, history and open tabs across Firefox browsers on desktops, smartphones and tablets.
Perhaps oddly, Sync only pushed updates to the mobile device and not vice versa.
Firefox Home is designed to run on the iPhone and iPod touch. Although it should run pixel double just fine on the iPad, Firefox Home is not a universal app.
Real change
Although Mozilla has a huge investment in their own browser engine, Gecko, and related web technologies wouldn’t it be interesting if they switched Firefox, etc. wholesale over to WebKit? That would put a lot of weight and increase momentum behind the WebKit phenomenon, which now all but owns the mobile space…
What’s your take?
via News.com
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