Firefox Home - Firefox for the iPhone

[Skiz]

Loyal Firefox users – the Awesome Bar, your browsing history, bookmarks and even opened tabs can now follow you everywhere you go with Mozilla’s Firefox Home for the iPhone. http://i31.tinypic.com/25allyb.jpg

Firefox Home provides access to your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone. It's not a web browser itself, but with it you can get up and go and have everything waiting for you on your iPhone. And, of course, it's free.


-On the Go? Have instant access to the list of tabs you have open on your desktop.

-Type Less. No need to type long URLs, your bookmarks get you to your favorite sites by tapping.

-Search. Start typing and the Awesome Bar takes you to your favorite and important sites.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GRiUudn4w


:source: Source: https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/home/

EDIT: There appears to be a lot of people complaining about syncing issues for iPhone 4

[Vulcan]

This looks legit, will definitely need to try it out.

[ulun64]

Let's see whether Apple Apps Store, allow it or not................

[Skiz]

Let's see whether Apple Apps Store, allow it or not................

You're not Mr. Current Events are you? It's been in the App Store for nearly 2 weeks.

I don't know why you think Apple would deny it. After all, it's essentially an app that syncs your bookmarks.

Other full browsers are even allowed, such as Opera Mini (http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/04/13/).

[SonsOfLiberty]

Well now if Apple would fix the antenna issue in the iPhone 4....

Consumer reports does not recommend this phone anymore.

http://blogs.consumerreports.org/electronics/2010/07/apple-iphone-4-antenna-issue-iphone4-problems-dropped-calls-lab-test-confirmed-problem-issues-signal-strength-att-network-gsm.html?cid=6a00d83451e0d569e201348586efff970c

[Skiz]

Old news, but since you mention it... :whistling



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An electromagnetic engineer has found fault (http://mobileanalyst.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/iphone-4-report-consumer-reports-study-is-full-of-crap/) with the way Consumer Reports did its iPhone 4 testing, calling it "uncontrolled, unscientific" and no different than the simple experiments "that many of the blogging sites have done." While Bob Egan - who says he dealt with "exactly the kind of issues that now face Apple" in his career - stops short of saying that there is no problem, he says it was wrong of Consumer Reports to present their testing results as authoritative.

As reported here on Monday (http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/718868-consumer-reports-pulls-iphone-4-recommendation.html), Consumer Reports claimed to have "confirmed" the reported antenna issue, replicating the results found by many users and more than a few blogs, and saying "it's official." Its lab tests consisted of setting up three new iPhone 4s in a sealed chamber with a "base station emulator," along with three other phones including an iPhone 3GS and a Palm Pre. Consumer Reports engineers are seen in the video of the testing in the lab, surrounded by a bunch of equipment with an iPhone in a clamp that looks like a robotic hand. Sure enough, when one of the engineers touches the lower-left corner, signal drops, and the other phones perform normally in the same tests.

While the sealed chamber and base station emulator gave the ability to measure transmit power accurately, allowing more precise calculation of the difference between expected and observed signal, the test in general was no different than what Anand Shimpi had done weeks before (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2), or really than what thousands of users have done on their own. Egan seems to be comparing the testing to an FCC certification test when he asserts that "the iPhone should have been sitting on a non-metallic pedestal inside an anechoic chamber," with no people inside the chamber and that "the base station simulator should have been also sitting outside the chamber and had a calibrated antenna plumbed to it from inside the chamber." He was asked in the comments to his blog post how they could have done the testing with no people inside. In response, Egan referred to the dummy heads used in specific absorption rate (SAR) testing of phones for the FCC. To gain meaningful information about the extent and possible cause of the problem, Egan notes, more scientific testing would have been necessary.

It should be established beyond a reasonable doubt by this point that the Death Grip problem is real. Apple has no doubt confirmed the problem in its lab testing, and may even be starting to make moves to address it (http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-news/719206-some-iphone-4-buyers-think-devices-already-being-built-differently.html). While Consumer Reports probably overreached in saying the problem was "confirmed," it's at least another report - like Anandtech's - with detailed and specific results - and will hopefully be yet another spur for Apple to step up and deal with the issue directly.

Source: AppleInsider (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/13/radio_engineer_consumer_reports_iphone_4_testing_flawed.html)

[SonsOfLiberty]

Not really old news since it was on the news on TV the other night....like less than a week ago, and of course look at the source, AppleInsider, hmmm....could they be biased? Maybe, maybe not. Then why why oh why are here so many pissed off people, my sister being one of those who had the old iPhone and got the new one for free, and right now thanks to that, can't hardly keep a call, oh and btw, Consumer Reports is more trust worthy than AI, at least IMO.

[Skiz]

Not really old news since it was on the news on TV the other night....like less than a week ago, and of course look at the source, AppleInsider, hmmm....could they be biased? Maybe, maybe not. Then why why oh why are here so many pissed off people, my sister being one of those who had the old iPhone and got the new one for free, and right now thanks to that, can't hardly keep a call, oh and btw, Consumer Reports is more trust worthy than AI, at least IMO.

In context of the iPhone 4, it's old news. The story was released on 7/12; more than 2 weeks ago. Since then, there has been a firmware update, free cases from Apple, multiple updates to their story, and multiple antenna engineers that have stated CR did a less than scientific test.

Can we keep to the topic, please? There are other threads for this sort of banter.

[SonsOfLiberty]

Sure, as you stated yet again it fails, with syncing...seems the phone is getting more and more problems of lately.

[Skiz]

Sure, as you stated yet again it fails, with syncing...seems the phone is getting more and more problems of lately.

This apps ability to sync has nothing whatsoever to do with the phone. It has everything to do with the app.

[Skiz]

Sure, as you stated yet again it fails, with syncing...seems the phone is getting more and more problems of lately.

This apps ability to sync has nothing whatsoever to do with the phone. It has everything to do with the app.

[ulun64]

Let's see whether Apple Apps Store, allow it or not................

You're not Mr. Current Events are you? It's been in the App Store for nearly 2 weeks.

I don't know why you think Apple would deny it. After all, it's essentially an app that syncs your bookmarks.

Other full browsers are even allowed, such as Opera Mini (http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/04/13/).


Of course Apple allow Firefox and Opera Mini on their Apps Store as long it's not better than Safari.........