

Users do not need to install another download application. However, if the device is installing Firefox browser and updating to the latest version, we can download the file right from the browser. There are two big reasons that you might want to use Firefox for iOS: you're a Firefox user on your desktop PC and want to avail yourself of synchronised bookmark and tab histories or you buy into the idea that Mozilla is a better and safer shepherd of your Web surfing experience.Previously, to download files on iOS devices, users needed other applications to support. Given that Firefox for iOS shares much of the same underlying code as Safari or Chrome for iOS, that isn't surprising. Pages loaded quickly-or rather, they seemed to load just as quickly as Chrome and Safari. We tested Firefox for iOS very briefly, and it worked just fine. As mentioned previously, the underlying layout engine is WebKit, rather than Firefox's usual Gecko. In December 2014, Mozilla finally announced that Firefox would be coming back to iOS-and this time, it would actually contain a Web browser.įirefox for iOS has a pretty rich feature set: private browsing mode Firefox Sync an intelligent "omnibar" address box and a few neat UI tweaks. Home was retired way back in 2012-and then. This app didn't include a Web browser rather, it just used Firefox Sync to pull down your browsing history and bookmarks from your desktop installation of Firefox. Way back in 2010, Mozilla released an app called Firefox Home for iOS. The app is available as a free download from the App Store.

Rather unusually, this is the first version of the Firefox browser that does not use the Gecko layout engine, instead using iOS's built-in WebKit-based layout engine.
