Firefox Home , Mozilla ’s “ do n’t call it a web browser ” app for the iPhone and iPod touch , has received a small update that brings a figure of young features and financial backing for 16 languages . Most notably , Firefox Home has finally become the web browser it should have been all along .
For those who are n’t intimate , Firefox Home 1.0 was lay and designed as a mobile guest for the desktop version of Firefox — not an existent browser app . Once you install theFirefox Syncplug - in on your Mac or PC , you could get at your Firefox bookmarks , history , and unfastened check on your iPhone or iPod touch . The odd catch , however , was that Firefox Home 1.0 had no address bar with which to browse to internet site that you had not visited or bookmarked on your computing equipment .
Among the new features in Firefox Home 1.0.2 is an speech bar , arguably the cardinal feature that an app needs to be called a “ internet browser . ” you’re able to in conclusion type any name and address into Firefox Home , or typecast part of a URL to hear and find the actual website on the Web . Mozilla added Firefox 3.0 ’s “ Awesome Bar ” feature article in this update as well , tolerate you to seek your bookmarker and history .
Other unexampled characteristic let in end - to - closing encryption for the Firefox Sync process , one - way refresh of your Firefox information from your computer to your wandering machine , and funding for fly the coop Firefox Sync on your own server .
Of course , it ’s also deserving remark that while Firefox Home may be one dance step closer to a web browser , it ’s still not on the nose Firefox — due to Apple ’s developer restriction , it continues to start the same WebKit engine that powers Safari , and not the Gecko railway locomotive that the desktop version of Firefox the States .
Firefox Home is free on the App Store . The interlingual rendition 1.0.2 update is available now and requires an iPhone or iPad run iOS 3.1 or high-pitched .
