Coming Soon – Firefox Home App for iPhone
Wow. Some Firefox goodness for the iPhone is coming soon. The Firefox Home app will let you sync your Firefox bookmarks, history, tabs and more to your iPhone.
You’ll be able to search through your synced items, and view them in the app’s inline browser.
A year or so ago I would have been all over this app, but I eventually got fed up with Firefox’s crazy resource hogging (continually burning up CPU and RAM) and have switched to Safari, Camino, and now almost exclusively Chrome.
Any Firefox users here keen to see this one hit the App Store?
Via: Gizmodo
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I still use Firefox on my Mac as my primary browser there. I don't have many add ons installed though, so I rarely ever have memory or CPU issues unless I have a few sites open with poorly written Flash. Chrome isn't quite there on a Mac; slower than Firefox for me. Not that that's saying much. Firefox is pretty fast.
On Windows I tend to hop onto Chrome for speed and Firefox for add ons. And of course *shudder* IE8 for those godawful yesteryear intranet sites which still require it. Please tell me why I need to use IE in order to fill out a time sheet…
Hmmm, I had Firefox (on a Mac) trimmed down to just a couple of extensions – but it still annihilated CPU and RAM resources on a very regular basis. I'm finding Chrome way faster on the Mac. Fortunately I very rarely have to run a browser in my Windows virtual machine, and IE only when absolutely necessary to test something.
Strange that firefox would be exhibiting that behavior. Ever since I upgraded to 3.6 I've found it to be the fastest, best browser I've used on my Mac. So I'll be pretty happy to get an app on my iPhone to sync Firefox bookmarks. Though, usefulness will be limited by it only being able to browse them from within the app as opposed to syncing bookmarks like Safari does.
I guess there is an upside to that I don't use Safari on my Mac, though…with MobileMe syncing my bookmarks, I'm not encumbered by a bunch of bookmarked sites that only work on a desktop browser — they are all specifically bookmarked from either my iPhone or my iPad.
I don't know when 3.6 came out, but likely after I'd already quit using Firefox. It was diabolical, unusable – and I've seen that on both Windows and Mac machines and across many generations of it. I honestly love Firefox but I just gave up on trying to work around its resource abuse.
MobileMe = cool that you're found a good use for it. I really only keep it around for 'Find My Phone'.