Mozilla has been offering mobile versions of the Firefox web browser for Android since earlier this year, but up until recently the browser was built using Mozilla’s own tools rather than native Android UI widgets. This week the developers released the first nightly builds of Firefox which use native Android tools to reduce memory usage and improve speed. You can download the latest builds from… Read more »

The first version of Firefox for Android tablets is now available for download. The latest nightly builds of Mozilla’s web browser for Android include a new user interface designed for Android devices with large, high resolution displays. Firefox for tablets offers the same basic features as the smartphone version of the web browser, including Mozilla’s rendering engine, Firefox Sync capabilities which let you keep your… Read more »

Mozilla has long offered users and developers a chance to try out early builds of its desktop Firefox web browser before they were thoroughly tested and deemed ready for the public. Now Mozilla has also launched Aurora and Nightly channels for Firefox Mobile, allowing Android users to test out early versions of Firefox 5 and Firefox 6. The Aurora channel currently lets you preview Firefox… Read more »

Mozilla Firefox 4 is due out tomorrow, but it’s not the only Mozilla web browser getting an update today. The company has just launched the Release Candidate for Firefox 4 for Mobile. The mobile browser for Maemo and Android has been in beta testing for months, and now Mozilla is almost finished calling the app a test release. If you’ve been following the browser’s progress… Read more »

Mozilla has been testing early builds of Firefox for Google Android for months, but the web browser isn’t yet available from the Android Market. Instead you have to download it directly from Mozilla’s web site and install it manually. But it looks like that will change before the end of December. Answering a question from a user who was having difficulty installing the browser, Mozilla’s… Read more »

Mozilla has released an updated beta version of Firefox for Google Android and Maemo Linux devices. Firefox 4 Beta 2 for Mobile has a far smaller memory footprint, and a built-in crash reporter. The browser is available in 10 different languages now, loads web pages about 40% faster than the last version, and reduces battery usage. The Android version also features a redesigned and much… Read more »

After months of alpha testing, Mozilla has dropped the Fennec codename and launched Firefox Beta for mobile. The latest version of the mobile browser is still in beta, which means there may still be some bugs and it’s possible that not all of the features have been finalized. But Mozilla is at least confident enough in the mobile browser to give it the Firefox name…. Read more »

Mozilla has changed the name of its pre-release version of Firefox Mobile from Fennec 2.0 to Fennec 4.0. What’s in a name? Not much, really. The update doesn’t add any new features. It’s just Mozilla’s way of helping make it clear that the mobile version of Firefox is being developed in parallel with the desktop version — and the next major version of Firefox for… Read more »

There’s a new build of Fennec 2.0 Alpha available for Google Android, which isn’t a huge surprise since there’s a new build available pretty much every night. What is a bit surprising is just how much faster the browser feels than it used to. Don’t get me wrong, it still takes a while to load web pages. But navigating within the browser is much faster… Read more »

Firefox makers Mozilla are hard at work building a mobile version of their popular desktop web browser. Right now, the team’s efforts are focused on Google Android and Maemo Linux, but developer Dave Townsend took it upon himself to take a recent build of Fennec (the code-name for Firefox Mobile) and port it to run on Palm WebOS. He calls it PreFox. In other words… Read more »