Skyfire Submitted to Apple’s App Store

Just as expected, Skyfire Team has submitted their mobile web browser into Apple’s App store and is awaiting approval.

If Apple approves the app, Skyfire would allow iPhone/iPad users to enjoy Flash content that is being transcoded into HTML5 via company servers.

According to press release, Skyfire Team followed Apple guidelines, including the use of a WebKit browser core shared with Safari, and h.264 adaptive streaming.

Windows Phone 7 Browser Comparison

Guys at PocketNow.com compared Windows Phone 7, iPhone and Android browsing experience.

Firefox Home App Approved by Apple

Few weeks ago, Mozilla has submitted Firefox Home to Apple’s App Store and today, it was finally approved.

Here is how to get started (as from blog.mozilla.com):

- Install Firefox Sync, a free add-on for Firefox, on your desktop.
- Restart Firefox and follow prompts to create an account with both a password and a secret phrase.
- Go the App Store on your iPhone and search for “Firefox Home” or install it directly from iTunes.
- Launch Firefox Home on your iPhone. You’ll be prompted to enter your Firefox Sync account info. Enter your username, password and Secret Phrase and tap “Done.”
- Enjoy!

Download.

Firefox Home Submitted to Apple App Store

It looks like Mozilla has finally finished Firefox Home application and submitted it to Apple’s App Store. Pricing was revealed as well: it’s totally free.

As we wrote earlier, Firefox Home is a simple iPhone application (based on Weave Sync), that allows iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad users to access their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and tabs from their most recent browsing session.
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Opera Mini for iPhone: 2.6 Million Users

It appears that Opera Mini for the iPhone is doing really well.

According to the Opera’s most recent “State of the Mobile Web” report, browser is already more than 2.6 million unique users.

That makes Apple iPhone the 3rd most popular device running Opera Mini.

1. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic
2. Nokia 6300
3. Apple iPhone

Additionally, company has reported a 6.6% users increase from March 2010, with a total user count of over 58.9 million.

Synchronize Between Firefox and iPhone with Firefox Home

Mozilla has recently announced an upcoming project that is “Firefox Home”.

What is it?
Firefox Home is a simple iPhone application (based on Weave Sync), that allows iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad users to access their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and tabs from their most recent browsing session.

Furthermore, it allows you to use Awesome Bar without Firefox browser itself. Read more

Skyfire for iPhone is Coming, Possible Flash and Silverlight Support?

Jeff Glueck, the CEO of Skyfire congratulated Opera team and dropped a hint about the upcoming Skyfire for iPhone release:

“Everyone at Skyfire was heartened by this decision by Apple, to open up their platform and believe this sets a solid precedent for additional innovation in mobile browsing from other companies.

Skyfire believes this approval is a solid first step and there’s still major consumer demand for great rich media and video browsing on these devices. Our philosophy is that enhanced speed AND all the rich media of the web can be together in one browser. Read more

Opera Mini for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch Approved

This is it; Apple has just approved Opera Mini, world’s most popular mobile web browser. It appears that company is not as evil as some people have thought.

Furthermore, you can download it at no cost.

Congratulations to Opera Software.

Visit App Store.

Thanks to Michael Pürmayr for the news tip.

Weekly Browsers Recap, March 29th

• Introducing IE9’s User Agent String
• Browser ballot already hurting Internet Explorer market share
• Firefox gets a boost from browser choice in Europe
• Memory Fox
• Visualizing Usage of the Firefox Menu Bar
• Contacts in the Browser
• Firefox mobile beta for Android coming in 2010
• Google Chrome to do away with unique IDs
• Google Chrome 5 Beta
• Introducing the ANGLE Project
• Opera Mini for iPhone speed test
• Microsoft to extend Silverlight for Mac?
• Camino and the 2010 Google Summer of Code
• Maxthon Extends Isolator Protection to Page Crashes

Thanks to Ichan, mabdul and Nox for links.

Opera Mini Submitted to Apple App Store

Good news, Opera Software has finished Opera Mini for the iPhone and submitted it to Apple’s App Store.

What happens next? We sit and wait. While doing just that, you can try guessing approximate application approval date and win an iPhone!

Thanks to Daniel Hendrycks, Ichann and Justas Gervinskas for the news tip.

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