Firefox for Android, is designed to provide a smoother web browsing experience on your phone.
How does Firefox look on a mobile?
The browser bears very little resemblance to the desktop version of Firefox, but it does adopt some of the great features made famous by the browser. For instance, pages can be opened simultaneously in the form of tabs, which you access by sliding the screen across to reveal a panel on the left-hand side. Tabs can be opened, closed and switched around as easily as they can in Firefox.
Like the desktop version, Firefox for Android also includes support for extensions, or Mobile Add-ons, as they're known in this case. These allow you to power up the Android browser with more functionality.
What makes it different from other mobile browsers?
Some of the cool tools on offer include YouTube Video Search, which lets you hunt for clips on the popular streaming site; TwitterBar, which lets you tweet from the Fennec address bar; and AdBlock Plus, which removes adverts from your browsing experience.
Other useful tools pre-built into Firefox for Android include a slick bookmarks manager, address auto-complete, and a customizable start page. Zooming in and out of pages has improved a lot since the early alpha release of Firefox Mobile, or Fennec, as it was called. Now you can pinch to zoom, or double-tap for a quick in/out, making page navigation effortless.
Another neat feature of Firefox for Android is its support for Firefox Sync. This grants you access to all the bookmarks, history and running tabs of the desktop version of Firefox, so you don’t have to worry about entering addresses manually.
Problems with Firefox for Android
Firefox for Android does have its shortcomings, however. The most notable omission is support for Flash, meaning that streaming media and accessing interactive Flash, built sites is a no-no. This is a shame, although the browser does have support for HTML 5.
The app is quite chunky too, weighing in at around 14Mb, which is a lot for a mobile app. It is possible to move it to your SD storage card and run it right off of there.
Firefox promises to be faster than previous versions of the browser, and in our tests we observed a tangible difference in load times than the previous version.
Firefox Mobile is a very good Android browser and it makes for a comfortable way to use the web on your phone.
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