Firefox finally fires up on the iPhone

Mozilla on Thursday launched Firefox for iOS, the browser it long loved to resist coding.

Firefox can be found today in Apple's App Store.

"Firefox for iOS lets you take your favorite browser with you wherever you go with the Firefox features you already love," said Nick Nguyen, vice president of Firefox, in a post to a company blog Thursday.

The browser, which engineers at the open-source developer have been working on since at least last December, is another attempt by Mozilla to crack the mobile market. Firefox for Android, issued in 2011, has failed to gain meaningful traction, with a user share of the mobile browser market of less than 1%. Meanwhile, the goliaths -- Safari and Chrome -- accounted for 41% and 37%, respectively.

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