Firefox on your iPhone?

Mozilla has just released Firefox Home for iOS, it's not actually a bells and whistles browser; but it's about as close as your going to get to the grown up desktop version on an Apple mobile device. The release of this app is certainly a step in the right direction from the open source giants, so what exactly is Firefox Home?

Well er... not very much actually, it appears that due to the fact that Firefox is based on Mozilla and Apple only allows browsers based on the Webkit rendering engine to truly grace their iOS. Mozilla's hands are pretty much tied leaving the best browser builders of the internet unable to actually build a 'real' web browser for platform. What you end up getting is an app that essentially is a one way bookmarking suite that remembers your desktop PC's/MAC Firefox browser tabs, history and a few other tidbits.

Make sure you remember to sync your PC first though, oh yeah and don't forget to download 'Firefox Sync' then install...restart... then sync then dare we say it... delete and just use Safari/Opera?

It really is a shame that Mozilla cannot get in on the mobile browser market due to policy issues! You know if they could that huge open source machine would rise to the challenge and the iPhone would get an awesome browser. Oh well one can dream.