Mozilla: Building Firefox for iPhone Is Difficult, ‘If Not Impossible’

Mozilla has effectively dismissed the possibility of every launching a full-featured Firefox web browser for the iPhone in a blog post published yesterday featuring several key topics, one of which was entitled “No Firefox Browser for the iPhone.” iPad users, however, may be in luck.

Mozilla, the makers of one of the most popular web browsing tools available today, is committed to bringing as much of the Firefox experience as possible to Firefox Home, the company’s Ragavan and Stuart wrote on behalf of the Firefox Home team.

“We are working to bring as much of your Firefox experience as possible to Firefox Home,” were the duo’s exact words.

“People have asked about adding more browser-like features to Firefox Home, but there are technical and logistical restrictions that make it difficult, if not impossible, to build the full Firefox browser for the iPhone,” Ragavan and Stuart revealed.

According to the pair, “[the Firefox Home team is] focused on building Firefox Home as a rich, cloud-based application and making it a valuable product that people will continue to love and use.”

In a separate topic, Mozilla’s bloggers unveil the upcoming availability of Blackberry and Symbian versions of Firefox Home, as well as plans of porting the service over to the iPad.

“In addition to adding new features, another big focus is to bring Firefox Home to other phones where users don’t have the Firefox browser,” the post reads on.

“We are working to bring Firefox Home to both Blackberry and Symbian platforms in the coming months. We want to offer people access to their Firefox data no matter where they are, and these two platforms make up around 60% of the worldwide smartphone market combined,” Mozilla’s guys say.

Finally, they note: “We’ve also heard interest for an iPad version of Firefox Home and will investigate this option further.”