Firefox Home headed to the App Store

...pending Apple approval, of course.

Late yesterday, Mozilla submitted Firefox Home, their not-quite-Firefox-Sync app for the iPhone. Back in May, our own Nik Fletcher compiled the Objective C source for the app and took it for a trial run. Everything functioned well at the time, but the apps' UI still needed polishing.

One thing worth noting is that Firefox Home only pulls data down to your iPhone -- as submitted, it doesn't push browsing data back up to your Firefox Sync storage in the cloud. Still, if you use Firefox on your desktop and own an iPhone, Firefox Home could be an extremely welcome power-up for your mobile browsing. As Nik when he compiled the app, "with the iPhone OS 4 background stuff it could be really interesting."

Will Firefox home get approved? Absolutely. Let's be clear: Firefox Home for the iPhone is not a browser, it's an iPhone interface to your Firefox Sync (formerly Weave) data. Actual browsing duties are handled by Apple's built-in WebKit browser. As long as Firefox Home doesn't make any taboo API calls (and I doubt it does), you should be seeing the app in your country's store any day now.