When Mozilla submitted their first application for Apple devices on July 30, it seemed as if the Steve Jobs-led corporation would nix any and all applications that would interfere with Safari usage. However, not even a month later, Apple has accepted Firefox Home.
The first and most common misconception is that the free application is a full-fledged Mozilla Firefox browser — it’s not. The application allows you to sync up with your desktop’s Firefox browser and view the tabs, bookmarks, and web history of the browser. While, with the Awesomebar, you can visit other Web pages, it’s not an actual browser and viewing websites is like viewing them in Facebook’s app.
To use and sync your desktop browser with the mobile application, you must download and install Firefox Sync, a free add-on for Firefox. Once installed, just register and a few more clicks and you’ll be ready to go.
Mozilla also made the point to state on Firefox Home’s FAQ that the non-profit organization would not be creating an actual browser for the iPhone, stating that the reason is because of “constraints with the OS environment and distribution.”