Mobile/Platforms

About Firefox for Mobile

Firefox for Android built on the same engine as Firefox desktop, with extensive changes to optimize performance and user experience on mobile devices.

Firefox for Android is just like our desktop browser – secure, powerful and customizable. It’s packed with many of the same features, including the Awesome Bar, add-ons, Firefox Sync and Location-Aware Browsing. Available in more than 10 languages and counting, Firefox for mobile is the most personalized mobile Web browser in the world. Learn more at our Mozilla Mobile page.

Supported Platforms

Android

Firefox is available for Android 2.0 and higher. See the Android System Requirements to check whether your Android phone is compatible with Firefox.

Firefox Home for iPhone

Firefox Home is a free application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Firefox Home lets you access your Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs on your iPhone. Download it for free on iTunes.

Mobile Firefox for desktop computers

Developers can install mobile Firefox on Mac, Windows, or Linux PCs to test mobile web sites and add-ons. (The desktop versions are intended for development purposes only.)

Other Platforms

Maemo

Mozilla has stopped official support and development for Firefox for Maemo. The last official release for Maemo was Firefox 7. Nightly builds might be available for newer releases, but they are not officially supported.

Windows Mobile

Firefox has stopped development for Windows Mobile indefinitely. Thank you to our contributors for their continued support and feedback. The last release for Windows Mobile was 1.1 alpha 1 (download). We have stopped developing for Microsoft's mobile platform because Windows Phone 7 no longer allows developers to build C++ applications like Firefox, and Microsoft's new policies ban open-source software like Firefox from the Windows Phone Marketplace.

iPhone/iPad/iPod

We have no plans to release the full Firefox browser for iOS. The iOS SDK agreement requires apps to use Apple's own JavaScript engine (or none at all, like Opera Mini which downloads pre-rendered pages from Opera's servers and cannot run JavaScript code in the client). Because of this, we have no supported way to distribute Firefox's rendering and JavaScript engine to iPhone users.

However, you can download Firefox Home for iPhone, an iOS app that uses Firefox Sync to deliver Firefox bookmarks, browsing history, and tabs to your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Palm webOS

We currently have no plans to develop Firefox for the Palm Pre/webOS platform, but there is an unofficial port by Dave Townsend.

Blackberry

Due to the Java-based development system and inability to build C/C++ apps, the full Firefox browser will not be available on the Blackberry OS. However, a future version of Firefox Home may be available for Blackberry.

Symbian

We currently have no plans to develop a full Firefox browser for the Symbian platform. See Mobile/Symbian for notes from an inactive project to port Firefox to Symbian. However, a future version of Firefox Home may be available for Symbian.

Feature phones

We’ve targeted our development for smartphones. Standard mobile or feature phones are not powerful enough to support a great Firefox user experience.

Recommended Hardware

See Mobile/Devices.