How to Get Firefox Home on iPhone

Published: 03rd September 2010
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Firefox Home provides access to your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone. Get up and go and have exactly what you arelooking for on the Web on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Firefox Home uses your browser data, securely synced from Firefox on your desktop to the cloud, to let you search and browse quickly and efficiently. You can view the sites you want directly in Firefox Home, open them in Mobile Safari or share them with friends via email. Your Firefox data is private and only you have access to it.




Steps to Follow




If you have Firefox Sync on your desktop, skip to step 3.


1. Install Firefox Sync, a free add-on for Firefox, on your desktop.


2. Restart Firefox and follow prompts to create an account with both a password and a secret phase.


3. Go the App Store on your iPhone and search for Firefox Home or install it directly from iTunes.


4. Launch Firefox Home on your iPhone. You will be prompted to enter your Firefox Sync account info. Enter your username, password and Secret Phrase and tap Done.





The app is called Firefox Home, and it gives iPhone users instant access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs from their most recent browser session. It provides Firefox "Awesome Bar" capability that enables people to get to their favorite web sites with minimal typing.

Firefox Home provides an amazing get up and go experience. It’s encrypted end-to-end. It’s your home on the Web, wherever you are. And, it’s free.




Firefox Home for iPhone is part of a broader Mozilla effort to provide a more personal Web experience with more user control. For devices or platforms where we are unable to provide the full Firefox browser, we aim to provide users with on the go instant access to their personal Firefox history, bookmarks and open tabs on their iPhones, giving them another reason to keep loving Firefox on their desktops.


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