It's not just Firefox for the iPhone, but it's the next best thing.
Mozilla announced it's plans for iPhone on their blog introducing "Firefox Home" - an iPhone app based on Firefox Sync that gives users access to browsing history, bookmarks, and tap sets, from their desktop-based Firefox browser.
According to Mozilla, the free app is "encrypted end-to-end." Mozilla have added sync support across the desktop and mobile versions, which means that you can re-open the desktop tabs on the mobile app. You can also use the same “Awesome Bar” as on the desktop app to pull in auto-complete results on the mobile client; that should alsosave you from tapping in long URLs on an iPhone keyboard, since if you’ve visited the page on the desktop it will pull that in too.
Pages will load in the app itself, but it will be a read-only viewer rather than a complete browser; the mobile version of your desktop, rather than a standalone app in its own right. Mozilla plan to submit Firefox Home for iPhone to Apple for App Store approval in June.
Apple has been very particular about apps that "duplicate existing function," a complaint it has lodged against a number of browsers in the past, given the existence of the proprietary Safari browser for iPhone. Though other browsers like, Opera, did manage to make it into the App Store.
Mozilla has previously rolled out a Firefox web browser for Mac OS X running on more than one Apple system, this application takes the mobile Firefox experience one step further by providing iPhone users with everything from browsing history to the tabs used during their last browser session.
Firefox Home feels like a workaround from Mozilla. It's not quite a full browser, but it's a way to keep Firefox users faithful. The new app will reportedly also work on the iPad, but as per Mozilla, it isn't optimized for that platform yet.
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