It's not quite Firefox for the iPhone, but it's the next best thing: Mozilla has detailed its plans for Firefox Home, an iPhone app.

It's not quite Firefox for the iPhone, but it's the next best thing.

In a blog post Wednesday, Mozilla detailed its plans for Firefox Home, an iPhone app based on Firefox Sync that gives users access to browsing history, bookmarks, and tap sets, from their desktop-based Firefox browser.

According to Mozilla, the free app is "encrypted end-to-end." Mozilla has yet to actually submit Firefox Home to Apple, so there's no telling whether the app will fall victim to the company's infamous vetting processes.

Apple has been particularly stringent about apps that "duplicate existing function," a complaint it has lodged against a number of browsers in the past, given the existence of the proprietary Safari for iPhone. (Opera, for the record, did manage to make it into the App Store, breaking some records in the process.)

Firefox Home feels like a workaround from Mozilla. It's not quite a full browser, but it's a way to keep iPhone owners in the Firefox camp. The new app will reportedly also work on the iPad, but isn't optimized for that platform.