{"id":284,"date":"2012-06-26T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/?p=284"},"modified":"2012-06-26T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:36:14","slug":"mozilla-launches-a-speedy-and-powerful-upgrade-to-mobile-browsing-with-firefox-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/2012\/06\/mozilla-launches-a-speedy-and-powerful-upgrade-to-mobile-browsing-with-firefox-for-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Launches a Speedy and Powerful Upgrade to Mobile Browsing with Firefox for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bug764691.bugzilla.mozilla.org\/attachment.cgi?id=635120\" alt=\"https:\/\/bug764691.bugzilla.mozilla.org\/attachment.cgi?id=635120\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a pioneer of the Web, Mozilla unlocked the Web experience on the desktop with Firefox and we are doing it again in mobile. We\u2019re proud to announce a new Firefox for Android is now<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/mobile\/android-download.html?WT.mc_id=fxa_gablog\"> available for download<\/a> in the Google Play store. The new Firefox for Android is a snappy and dynamic upgrade to mobile browsing that makes it faster and easier to get where you want to go on the Web.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Super Fast<\/strong><br \/>\nWe redesigned Firefox for Android to make it a screaming fast and personalized upgrade to mobile browsing that lets you take your Web experience everywhere you go. You\u2019ll notice dramatic performance improvements that make Firefox on your Android phone super fast with everything from startup and page load times to panning and zooming and Web app performance when you just want to play Mozilla\u2019s BrowserQuest game with your friends.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox for Android is significantly faster than the stock browser that ships on Android phones according to the leading industry benchmarks, such as Sunspider. In addition, we developed a new benchmark, called Eideticker, that measures the actual user Web experience and we built Firefox for Android to it, yielding an experience that is two times faster than the stock browser.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bug763099.bugzilla.mozilla.org\/attachment.cgi?id=633180\" alt=\"https:\/\/bug763099.bugzilla.mozilla.org\/attachment.cgi?id=633180\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Upgrade to Mobile Browsing<\/strong><br \/>\nFirefox for Android has a fresh, streamlined look with a personalized start page that saves you time getting where you want to go on the Web. The new Awesome Screen powered by Firefox Sync delivers all your browsing history, bookmarks, passwords and form data to your Android phone. We also optimized your favorite features like tabbed browsing, Firefox Sync and Firefox Add-ons to deliver the best mobile browsing experience possible.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox for Android supports Flash so you can watch videos, play games and interact with more Web content on your Android phone.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cl.ly\/2h3q223a0b2y1Q3c3d1s\/firefoxandroidstartpage.png\" alt=\"firefoxandroidstartpage.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Based on the same open technology platform as the desktop version of Firefox, Firefox for Android offers the highest level of privacy and security features in mobile browsing. Firefox respects your privacy and protects your security with features like Do Not Track, Master Password, HTTP Strict Transport Security and <a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/configure-mobile-privacy-and-security-settings#os=android&amp;browser=m14\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upgrade to the Web Platform<\/strong><br \/>\nNew HTML5 capabilities in Firefox for Android enable developers to create rich Web apps and websites based on HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and other open Web standards. As the advocate for the Web, Mozilla exposes <a href=\"http:\/\/hacks.mozilla.org\/2012\/02\/mozilla-and-the-mobile-web-api-evolution\/\">new Web APIs<\/a> and submits them to standards groups to move the Web forward as a platform. Among the standards that Mozilla helped build are Camera API, Vibration API, Mobile Connection API, Battery Status API, Screen Orientation API and Geolocation API.<\/p>\n<p>You can play Mozilla\u2019s HTML5 BrowserQuest multi-player role playing game across desktop and mobile Web experiences to see just how powerful, fast and fun the Web can be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/mobile\/android-download.html?WT.mc_id=fxa_gablog\">Download Firefox for Android in the Google Play Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/mobile\/14.0\/releasenotes\/\">Detailed release notes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/kits\/\">Firefox press kits<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a pioneer of the Web, Mozilla unlocked the Web experience on the desktop with Firefox and we are doing it again in mobile. We\u2019re proud to announce a new &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/2012\/06\/mozilla-launches-a-speedy-and-powerful-upgrade-to-mobile-browsing-with-firefox-for-android\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4498,66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}