Firefox Home app promises to link iPhone to your desktop browsing


Mozilla this week showed off its upcoming app for the iPhone OS. The app promises to allow Firefox desktop users to extend their browsing activity to Mobile Safari.

Basically Firefox Home is a stand-alone app with a built in Safari Web browser. Users will have a secure link to their browsing activity via Firefox Sync. So, if you have bookmarks on your desktop, that will be available. Even more interesting, recent browsing history and tabs will also be available. So, say you were reading something on your desktop and need to run out the door, in theory, Firefox Home will allow you pick up your open page on the iPhone. Or, say earlier today you had Mapquest open with direction, you could perhaps open that history on your Firefox Home and grab it on the iPhone. Also, using the "Awesome Bar" (their words) users can start typing in an address and Firefox Home will auto complete, thus saving a lot of typing.

Sounds pretty spiffy. The elephant here is this an effort around Apple's app store restrictions which will unlikely allow a non-Webkit browser like Firefox (that actually renders on the device). No word on when it will be submitted to iTunes, but it sounds like it's not too far away. Video demo below: