Mozilla Launches Powerful new upgrade with Firefox for Android

The Android market is buzz with a number of developments and launches. While officially announced the launch of Jelly bean by displaying a jelly bean statue on its front lawn, Mozilla announced a major upgrade of its browser, with the launch of Firefox for Android, optimized for mobiles.

The story about Jelly bean is well documented at Androidprint. Some of our previous posts have talked elaborately about it.   

 

One the other hand the launch by Mozilla is great especially or the die-hard fans of Firefox like me. Since buying the Android device I was not happy with the browsing experience. This is massive news, I have to still check it properly, but the app looks really good. The Firefox for Android app is currently available for download in the Google Play store for free. The Firefox for Android app is really snappy and dynamic upgrade to mobile browsing that makes it faster and easier to get where you want to go on the Web.

Its main features include a redesigned app which makes it a screaming fast and personalized upgrade to mobile browsing that lets users to take the Web experience to mobile or tablet. The company says there are dramatic performance improvements that make Firefox on the Android phone super fast with everything from startup and page load times to panning and zooming and Web app performance.

The company added that the Firefox for Android app is significantly faster than the stock browser that is shipped on Android phones based on leading industry benchmarks, such as Sunspider. Moziilla has also announced the development of a new benchmark, named Eideticker, which measures the actual user Web experience. This has been built into the Firefox for Android app and it seems the results are good as the app seems to yield an experience which is two times faster than the stock browser.

The app has a fresh, streamlined look with a personalized start page that saves time while browsing on the Web. The new Awesome Screen powered by Firefox Sync delivers the browsing history, bookmarks, passwords and form data to the Android phone. Other mobile optimized features include tabbed browsing, Firefox Sync and Firefox Add-ons.

The good thing is that the browser supports Flash which allows the users to watch videos, play games and interact with more Web content on the Android phone. This may increase the time spent on the web by Android devices compared to iPhones. It also has many features for privacy and security in mobile browsing. The apps security features include Do Not Track, Master Password, HTTP Strict Transport Security and more.

The best part is its HTML5 capabilities, which enables developers to create rich Web apps and websites based on HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and other open Web standards.