Mozilla releases Firefox 4 beta for mobile

Mozilla introduces Fennec 2.0 codename,  first Firefox Beta for mobile is same as the desktop Firefox 4 beta, it uses the latest Firefox Javascript engine including the new Jager Monkey extension.. It is available as a free download for Android 2.x and Maemo devices.

Firefox 4 beta

The latest version of the mobile browser features not have been finalized as is still in beta. But Mozilla is at least confident enough in the mobile browser to give it the Firefox name.

“Early Firefox for Android builds were very slow compared to the stock browser,” reads a blog post from Mozilla man Matt Brubeck. “Performance is critical in a mobile browser, and our work in this area is starting to pay off. The new beta version is much speedier, and we have plans to make it even faster.”- Source

Firefox Mobile offers Firefox Sync, for syncing bookmarks, tabs, history, passwords, and form data across Firefox browsers on multiple devices. Mobile version browser includes some of the features from the desktop version like ”Awesome bar,” the address bar that suggests sites based on where you’ve surfed in the past. It also provides quick

access to your bookmarks and history.

The beta benefits from a split architecture known as Electrolysis, using one process for the user interface and one for rendering and running scripts just like the alpha version. But unlike the alpha, it also incorporates Mozilla’s new Layers architecture, designed to speed scrolling, zooming, and animation via hardware acceleration and other tweaks.

Mozilla is also working on OpenGL hardware-accelerated compositing. But this is not yet available in the beta.