Firefox Home app for iPhone lets you take your browser preferences with you

Mozilla’s Firefox Home app is now available for download from the iTunes App Store. Firefox Home isn’t a full blown web browser for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. What the app does is give you mobile access the bookmarks, history, and currently open tabs from the desktop version of Firefox.

In order to sync your data, you’ll need to install the Firefox Sync add-on to your desktop browser. This will let you sync your bookmarks, passwords, history, and other preferences across multiple instances of Firefox on a computer or mobile device(although the password sync doesn’t work with Firefox Home… yet).

It’s not a perfect solution, but it does provide iPhone users with a way to take PC or Mac browser information with them on the go. Of course, another way to access your desktop browser preferences on a mobile device would be to use the Opera browser on your computer and Opera Mobile or Opera Mini on supported mobile devices, since Opera’s mobile browsers are full fledged web browsers which also happen to be able to sync with the desktop version.

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