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Firefox for Android is the browser built for the way you use the Web on your mobile phone. These key design principles are at the heart of the browsing experience minimize typing, let the Web have center stage, and seamlessly synchronize your desktop and mobile browsing. It's built on the same browser engine as Firefox 4 for desktop computers with some extensive under the hood work to optimize for mobile. Firefox for Android is secure, powerful, and customizable.


Firefox for Android now offers an interface built on native code. This means that there's almost no lag when launching Firefox, and that moving around the interface itself -- such as when you change jump from the Start Screen the "Awesome Page" -- ought to be smooth and near-instantaneous.

Although the new interface is completely different, if you're familiar with Android you ought to find it an easy study. On the right side of the location bar at the top, you'll see either a plus sign or a number that indicates how many tabs are open. Tap it to see tab thumbnails, a Plus sign for opening a new tab, or accessing your synced tabs list. Tap the plus to open a second tab. On Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and later, you've got a Settings icon on the top right. Legacy versions of Android have their dedicated hardware Settings button, so that icon isn't present for them.

Firefox is known for its aggressive support of HTML5, CSS3, and hardware-integration APIs, and Firefox for Android takes broad advantage of them. Among the numerous ways that Firefox can interact directly with your device, it can control your camera, mobile connection, battery status, screen orientation, and geolocator. This positions Firefox well for the future as an alternative to each site having its own app.

Performance
There's no doubt that Firefox renders Web sites faster than the stock Android browser. It also feels more cohesive, as the discrete elements of pages appear more quickly. Much of this has to do with Mozilla's JagerMonkey JavaScript engine.
On internal tests that Mozilla provided, the company noted that Firefox for Android is more than twice as fast as the stock Android browser, and nearly twice as fast as the previous version of Firefox when it comes to Web site panning and canvas rendering. On these tests, it also surpassed Chrome, Opera, and Dolphin HD. While these are Mozilla's own numbers, in informal hands-on tests Firefox appeared as fast as or faster than the competition.

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