Firefox Home, which is available at Apple App Store last July is not a browser, but the technology and synchronize your bookmarks that are provided in Firefox.
The application allows users to access the browser's bookmarks and history and also open Firefox tabs from last session to them. Applications for the iPhone it also provides the technology from Firefox's address bar that lets users search on the page that has been visited by keyword or character.
However, synchronization can only be done one way, from Firefox on the desktop computer to the iPhone. Not vice versa.
"People ask if we will be adding similar features to the Firefox browser Home. Unfortunately there are technical limitations that make it difficult even do not allow us to build the Firefox browser for the iPhone, "said Ragavan Srinivasan, Product Manager of Mozilla, as quoted from PCWorld, October 4, 2010.
Although Apple has clarified new policies for their App Store, but the competitor's browser still forbidden to enter there except if they are willing to rewrite the program code for this browser.
Applications to surf the Internet should use IOS and the WebKit framework WebKit JavaScript 'guidelines call Apple. Meanwhile, Firefox uses the Gecko rendering engine and the TraceMonkey JavaScript own.
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