Firefox has reached on iPhone rather. Mozilla’s Firefox Home, which is currently accessible in Apple’s App Store, brings your Firefox search history, bookmarks, and tabs to iPhone. It does so civility of Firefox Sync, an add-on for desktop versions of Firefox that synchronizes multiple copies of browser so your bookmarks, settings, and other customizations are similar in each browser you utilize.

Firefox Home allows you get at search history bookmarks, and tabs from inside the app you can load Web pages in program, where they’re provided by a rooted version of Apple’s Safari, or open them in Safari itself. It’s clever, but it’s nowhere close to as handy as a complete version of Firefox for iPhone will have been. You can’t open a new URL, or bookmark a new page, or type search queries into the address bar it’s firmly for going back to pages you once visited on a desktop copy of Firefox. Which indicates it neither feels like Firefox nor is capable to restore Safari as an everyday Web browser.

Why didn’t Mozilla write a complete version of Firefox for iPhone, similar to Fennec, which is accessible for Android? Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch says that Apple wouldn’t have received it for App Store. I’m not so certain that’s the case Apple didn’t have a difficulty with Opera Mini landing on its phone, and I can’t imagine a just, reliable policy which will believe Opera Mini but forbid Firefox.