After Mozilla released Firefox 4 for desktop, a week later the company launched the final versions of Firefox 4 designed for Android.
But some complaints began quickly to emerge because of slow performance as well as lack of Flash support in the browser.
The first time Mozilla offered Firefox 4 to users was last August. The company rolled out an alpha build, called Fennec. But later Mozilla gave another name to the program so as to keep it in sync with its well-known desktop browser.
It was touted by the company that Firefox 4 is enabled with faster performance and new streamlined interface. It sports Sync feature that allows users to keep passwords as well as open tabs that can be synchronized across a range of desktop computers and handsets.
It is claimed by Mozilla that the browser is three times faster compared to the native browser of Android. It is due to the new JaegerMonkey JavaScript engine. Just the same engine is used in the desktop editions of Firefox 4.
Although Firefox 4 is not supportive to Flash, it can rely on CSS, HTML as well as other standards of Web to render animated and video content.
The browser features a multi-tab interface and has the “Awesome bar” which can be found on the desktop version. Firefox 4 is unable to work on iOS devices, such as the iPad or iPhone. But Mozilla has created an app for iOS, which is called Firefox Home. It is responsible for synchronization of bookmarks, open tabs and browsing history.
Firefox 4 can be downloaded from the Android market for free. It is compatible with Android 2.0 or later versions.
Unfortunately, not all smartphones that run Android will be able to use the browser. According to several owners of the Motorola Droid, Firefox 4 will be able to work on their handsets.
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