Good news, Mozilla fans! You’ve finally got the opportunity to play around with the excellent Firefox browser on your smartphone, Mozilla has just announced that they are launching the Firefox 4 Beta For Mobile, and it is now available to download in ten different languages on both Android and Maemo devices.
What can you expect? For one, a new theme gives Firefox 4 Beta for Mobile a fresh look and includes new features supporting tabbed browsing and robust link sharing with friends and contacts. It’s also a sleek, minimal install that has been shrunk up to 60% for mobile devices.
According to Mozilla, Firefox 4 Beta for Mobile is also blisteringly fast: they say that on Android 2.2 FroYo, Firefox 4 for Mobile toasts the stock Android browser, running 25% faster on the SunSpider Javascript benchmark.
Of course, it’s a beta, so there’s still missing odds and ends. There’s no hardware acceleration yet, but Mozilla says it’s coming an dwill make scrolling and zooming even faster. Also missing? Sort of a biggy for a mobile browser: Firefox 4 Beta for Mobile doesn’t do HTML5 video. Sort of a big deal, all things considered, but Mozilla swears they are working on it.
If you’d like to try Firefox 4 Beta for Mobile on your Android or Maemo smartphone, you can grab it here.
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