Mozilla Firefox Coming to the iPhone

Yesterday, Mozilla announced that they are working on an iPhone application. The project is currently called Firefox Home, and will use Firefox’s sync technology to give you access to all your tabs and bookmarks, on your iPhone. They say it is fully encrypted, to ensure your privacy.

Here’s what they had to say on their blog:

We have been working on an application for the iPhone based on the Firefox Sync (formerly Weave Sync) technology. The app is called Firefox Home, and it gives iPhone users instant access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs from their most recent browser session. What’s more, it provides Firefox “Awesome Bar” capability that enables people to get to their favorite web sites with minimal typing.

Firefox Home provides an amazing “get up and go” experience. It’s encrypted end-to-end. It’s your home on the Web, wherever you are. And, of course, it’s free.

Firefox Home for iPhone is part of a broader Mozilla effort to provide a more personal Web experience with more user control. For devices or platforms where we’re unable to provide the “full” Firefox browser (either technically or due to policy), we aim to provide users with “on the go” instant access to their personal Firefox history, bookmarks and open tabs on their iPhones, giving them another reason to keep loving Firefox on their desktops.

So, the big question is, will this get approved, when it is submitted to Apple for review? It’s hard to say. Opera managed to get their app in there, so we’ll have to wait and see. There is no released date for Firefox Home, but we’ll keep our eye on it and let you know.

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