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Firefox 4 Beta for Android is now faster and smaller
Firefox 4 Beta 2 for Android became available earlier today, and it promises to bring many improvements over the initial beta. First off, it will use up a lot less space -- a precious commodity for almost all Android smartphones. The second beta should occupy about 17 MB once installed, compared to the first version's whopping 43 MB (which is almost a third of the entire app space most Android devices have). However, if you've been using the initial beta, you'll have to uninstall that prior to installing the new version to see the space savings in action (due to some 'technical limitation').Also in this version are a new theme, support for sharing links from the Site Menu, and the ability to undo closing a tab. Panning and zooming are now faster, and page load times have been reduced. Mozilla claims that on Android 2.2, Firefox 4 Beta 2 is 25% faster than the stock browser in the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark.
A Feedback button has been added to the Browser Controls panel that allows you to quickly voice your opinion on the browser, and crash reporting has been made a lot easier to use.
The next release will bring even more performance and usability improvements, alongside support for hardware acceleration and HTML5 video.
Download Firefox 4 Beta 2 for Android
[via Mobiputing]
Comments
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Subscribe to commentscaseNov 4th 2010 9:46PM
Let's see if they've got copy/paste working in all fields yet...
Fox318Nov 4th 2010 11:37PM
Is it even worth trying?
@davey_ladNov 5th 2010 3:47AM
As well as being smaller it can also be moved to your SD card ... if your phone supports it that is. I'll give it another shot... and hope for better results this time round.
@davey_ladNov 5th 2010 8:59AM
*Update*
I didn't get better results... it's still far to slooowww and clunky. Way behind the competition. Uninstalled.
Beta... are they having a laugh? This should be firmly stamped Alpha
SilverWaveNov 5th 2010 9:40AM
Have they fixed the text zooming issue?
If so it will be worth a look.
SilverWaveNov 5th 2010 2:12PM
Lots better :-)
13mb that reduces all but 100k of which moves to SD card.
Tap to zoom looks better, but it needs to be perfect for me to be able to switch.
FF sync is the killer feature.
SilverWaveNov 5th 2010 3:17PM
Text reflow still does not work correctly.
I don't want to pan across a large page of text only part of which I can see.
Instead the text should reflow to the size of the screen at the size I have set (or indicate by pinching).
Fail.
:-(