

The app could persuade users to stick with Firefox rather than try Safari on their home PC, but I doubt that would concern Apple. On the face of it, there’s no reason why Apple should reject Firefox Home. However, it also offers the “Awesome Bar” (I still hate that name!) so you can access frequently-used websites with a few keystrokes. The Firefox Home page viewer uses the native iPhone Safari browser. Effectively, it’s a one-way version of Firefox Sync (previously known as Weave Sync) which is available as an add-on but will eventually be integrated into the browser. Instead, the organization has created an app called Firefox Home which lets you access your desktop browser’s history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone. Firefox is available for other mobile platforms like Maemo and Android. Due to constraints with the OS environment and distribution, we cannot provide users Firefox for the iPhone.

We do not have plans to ship the Firefox browser for the iPhone. Apple had no reasonable arguments for rejecting the browser and knew there would be uproar if they did.

