Finally "Firefox for iOS" appeared, preview version launched & actual screenshots are being released

By the end of 2014 "I plan to develop Firefox for iOS"It is clear that Mozilla executives had announced it for internal use, but finally," iPhone, iPad, iPod touch compatible "Firefox for iOS"Was officially announced. Local time From September 3, 2015, the provision of preview version has been started in New Zealand, and it is planned that we will gradually increase the distribution area for the release in the world in the future.

Firefox for iOS Now Available for Preview | Future Releases
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/09/03/firefox-for-ios-now-available-for-preview/

Actually opening the page with iPhone looks like the following. Tab switching, menu screen calling functions, etc. are gathered in square buttons in the upper right corner. The "Back / Forward" "Update" "Favorite" button at the bottom of the screen is the same as the browser version Firefox, and a new "Share" button is added for smartphone.


When you enter the word you want to search in the search box, it automatically displays multiple search candidate words and search engines "Intelligent Search"Function is installed. For example, in the screenshot below, if you enter "firefox", candidates such as "firefox free download" and "firefox update" are displayed. Just above the keyboard are icons such as Amazon, Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, etc. You can go directly to the search results screen on each site.


In the page displaying a list of open tabs, you can visually check the contents of each page by arranging thumbnail images of the pages in a tile pattern. Also, if you log in as Firefox account, you can share your browsing history and password with Firefox for PC and iOS, and you can also use like "Read tabs on PC with iPhone".


On the setting screen, you can set "prescribed search engine settings" "block pop-up window" "use compact tab" "delete private data" "send report of crash" The development team is calling out the user "Please send feedback directly from" Send Feedback "using Firefox for iOS! First of all, after delivering the preview version only in New Zealand and gathering feedback, it is planned to increase the distribution area several countries at a time, leading to the official release.


Although the official release date is not decided yet because the release for the whole world will be the end of 2015, if you register your email address from the following page, you can receive notifications on the release date.

Firefox for iOS - Mobile web browser for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch - Mozilla
https://www.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/ios/