MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 25/01/2012 00:24, Rufus told the world:
Again, no joy. It looks optimized for iPhone - which means I'd have to
use the iPad built in 2X zoom and live with crappy display in my
browser. It also looks like a "note taker" and not really a browser.
Plus I would never use Firefox in lieu of SM...I'd use Safari. Opera
Mini would probably be more to my liking, but then I'd be in the same
boat as I am now.
Surprised though...given the SM team's outrage and upset at my vigorous
requests for an iOS version of SM I expected I'd never see any such
product for iOS. But much as I figured, it *can* and *has* been done,
or at least started - kudos to the Firefox team! Hope they finish the
job and put out an iPad optimized version.
Firefox Home, from what I understand, is not a browser and does not
pretend to be one. It's an utility to sync settings (bookmarks, mostly,
but perhaps passwords and history too) between Safari and the Firefox
Sync service. Or perhaps it works more like a launcher, keeping a
separate set of bookmarks and invoking Safari. I wouldn't know, I don't
use iOS.
That was the impression I got - it looks like a way to take "web notes"
and put them on your iPhone. Still, it's also not optimized for the
iPad's larger display.
What the previous poster suggested is that you use Firefox Sync to keep
a copy of your bookmarks "on the cloud" (once set up, it works
automatically -- you don't have to remember to resync), and use Firefox
Home to copy those to Safari on your Ipad.
There has been some talk of doing an iOS version of Firefox -- but
apparently it would be something similar to Opera Mini, that is, a
"browser" that does not have its own rendering engine, using instead a
proxy server for that.
That's still not as easy as just exporting my SM Bookmarks, importing
them into Safari, and then synching my iPad via iTunes as it was
designed to operate - without relying on the cloud (I keep cloud
services turned off and don't use it). And now that iOS 5 will let me
synch my iPad over wifi without plugging into USB it's even better. Not
to mention that I can even keep the imports in a dated folder in Safari
so I can know exactly when I last imported what.
Really, export/import of Bookmarks really isn't a big deal and is also a
very convenient way to share links via e-mail, etc. as an HTML document.
Particularly since I do use Safari on OS X on occasion - so
import/export works well for what I do and how I do it.
--
- Rufus
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