Firefox coming on iPhone as Firefox Home

So, if you have been wishing for a long time to run Firefox on your iPhone, then there is a chance that your wish may come true, not completely, sort of. Thats because the application submitted by Mozilla, Firefox Home, is not another version of Firefox for Mobile, Fennec, its rather a window to access your Firefox world, making sure that you don't miss any of your bookmarks, open tabs on other firefox etc

Back in May, Mozilla announced that they are working to launch a Firefox browser for Apple's iPhone. But since the Apple's software development kit prohibits a competitive browser, Mozilla couldn't have come up with a complete browser to replace Safari. So, the only solution was to come up with an iPhone version of Firefox (rather than the other way), which with the enable the users to fetch their Firefox data from other devices on their iPhone, using Firefox Sync.

Firefox Sync, previously known as Weave Sync, syncs users data - open tabs, history, saved passwords, bookmarks, securely on a cloud which can be later accessed or downloaded by the user using the same application.

Firefox sync is the backbone of Firefox Home. It provides a user with all his synced data - open tabs across all his Firefox installations (desktops, laptops, office/home), bookmarks, history etc.

This way while using your iPhone, you won't miss the tabs open on your Office computer(running firefox) or the bookmarks on your Home computer.

Ofcourse, to see the best results you will need to install the Firefox Sync addon on all your firefox installations.

Mozilla submitted Firefox Home to Apple's app store yesterday. Its a fair chance that it should be accepted, but no one knows how much time Apple will take to accept or reject it, could be days, weeks, months . We will keep you updated with the result.