Mozilla submits cloud-based Firefox Home app for iPhone

Open-source software development initiative Mozilla submitted its new Firefox Home application for the iPhone to Apple's App Store. The free Firefox Home provides iPhone users access to their Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs, securely synchronizing Firefox browser data from the desktop to the cloud to enable more efficient mobile web browsing and search. Users can view sites in Firefox Home then open them up via the iPhone's native Safari browser--sites can also be shared using email. Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently stated that the computing giant approves 95 percent of App Store submissions within seven days.

Mozilla previously stated it does not plan to develop a full-scale Firefox mobile browser optimized for the iPhone platform. "Our understanding of browsers in the iPhone App Store is that a ‘full' web browser like Firefox that incorporates its own web rendering and JavaScript engines would be prohibited," said Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's vice president of product, in an April interview with FierceMobileContent.

For more on the Firefox Home submission:
- read this Mozilla Blog entry

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