Browsing Ars Technica in Firefox for Android
Mozilla has released a major new version of the Firefox Web browser for Android. The developers have greatly improved the performance and responsiveness of the application while introducing a new user interface that is built with native widgets.
We first reported on Firefox for Android in 2010 after compiling an early experimental implementation from source code. The project has evolved considerably over the past two years. Version 14 of Firefox for Android finally offers a highly competitive alternative to the platform’s default browser.
Much like its desktop counterpart, the original Firefox port for Android had a unique user interface built with Mozilla’s XUL framework, an XML-based user interface layout system supported by Firefox’s Gecko rendering engine. After considerable testing and development, Mozilla determined last year that XUL wasn’t the right choice for an Android browser.
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