Mozilla plans to introduce a new “reader” mode in future versions of the Firefox web browser for Android devices. Reader mode strips away sidebars, advertisements, and pretty much everything but the text and pictures in an article. It’s something that’s currently offered by the Safari web browser for iOS and some third party Android apps such as Readability. Soon it will be baked into Firefox… Read more »

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 »

Mozilla has released Firefox 8 for Windows, Mac and Linux… and today the company also released an updated version of its mobile browser for Google Android. You can grab Firefox 8 for free from the Android Market. While the latest version of Firefox mobile has the same version number as its desktop cousin and uses the same rendering engine, the desktop and mobile versions of… 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 »

Web browser maker Mozilla released Firefox 6 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android this week. The new browser doesn’t feature any dramatic changes from version 5, but it’s a little faster, a little more refined, and offers hints of improvements to come. Mozilla recently moved to a “rapid release” schedule for the Firefox web browser, which means that major version numbers don’t necessarily mean major… Read more »

Mozilla’s mobile web browser keeps getting better. While Firefox 5 just hit the Android Market a few weeks ago, Mozilla is already working on versions 6 and 7. This week the developers released Firefox Mobile Aurora 7, which is a pre-release version of the next, next generation of the web browser and it features a couple of major improvements. First, the company has improved memory… Read more »

Mozilla has released Firefox 5.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The desktop version of the web browser features a number of performance enhancements and security and stability fixes, but you won’t find a huge list of changes from Firefox 4. Instead, the developers are moving to a rapid release schedule with new versions expected out every 6 weeks or so. The mobile browser for… Read more »

Mozilla rolled out a new version of Firefox for Android today with a Do Not Track feature, making it the first mobile browser ofr Android which offers this privacy measure. To enable the feature, just open up the settings and click the button that says “Tell sites not to track me.” This will send a message to web sites letting them know you don’t want… 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 »

Firefox Mobile has been getting better with each release, but the latest version is still technically just a “release candidate.” Now Computer World reports that Mozilla plans to launch the full version of Firefox Mobile within the next few days. There may be a few bug fixes included, but essentially it will be the same app as the release candidate which has been available from… Read more »