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Firefox home arrives in iTunes store, apparently contains naughty content
Approval was pretty much a foregone conclusion: like Opera's app, Firefox Home is not actually a browser and doesn't utilize any undocumented APIs. Both apps were designed from the get-go to be approved -- and, ultimately, they were. Don't worry, you're free to install both on your iPhone or iPod touch without fear of a great chasm opening up beneath your feet and swallowing you whole.
Two interesting notes about Firefox Home: running on iOS 4 on my iPod touch, it crashes. A lot. It's surprising, really, because compiling the pre-approval code from Mozilla and loading it went very smoothly and I didn't experience the crashing -- but I was running OS 3 at that point.
The other thing? Like so many other apps which don't merit them, Apple has slapped Firefox Home with the naughty content warning. Yes, that's right... a sync client (hey, MobileMe kinda does that too, right?) needs a content warning in Apple's mind.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that anyone who does store the kind of links in the Firefox bookmarks that Apple is warning about -- probably don't give a flying expletive about warnings. As for the rest of us? It just makes Apple look a little more clueless.
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Subscribe to commentsLeonickJul 16th 2010 11:02AM
Yea those naughty content warnings are stupid, Safari should have one at first start i think, Opera has one when you install it and both are just a naughty so :P
Michael MalcangioJul 16th 2010 1:14PM
I was impressed right up until it didn't reach out to Google or anywhere else when it doesn't find a term in your bookmarks or open tabs. My bookmarks are great, but what I really want is a go-to place on the iPhone for the web.
This is really close.
AnthonyJul 16th 2010 6:55PM
Wait, Opera for iPhone doesn't include the Presto engine? It uses Safari to display webpages? What's the use in that?
codedigitalJul 19th 2010 7:16AM
What you don't understand is that those warnings aren't for you...their for the kids.
I love that I can set my daughters iPod to not allow them and then block Safari and don't have to worry so much about where she's browsing and what she's playing around with.