Mozilla Releases Alpha Build of Firefox for Android

The Alpha release of the next major version of Fennec is now available for Android and Nokia N900 users to download and test.

According to Mozilla, the main focus of this release is to increase performance and responsiveness to user actions.

This is being implemented using two major technologies, "Electrolysis" and "Layers." This Alpha release includes Electrolysis, which allows the browser interface to run in a separate process from the one rendering Web content. By doing this, Fennec is able to react much faster to user input while pages are loading or CPU intensive JavaScript is running.


The upcoming beta release will start taking advantage of Layers to greatly improve performance in graphic intensive actions like scrolling, zooming, animations and video. Mozilla is also working to optimize these actions using the hardware-accelerated graphics rendering capabilities showing up in today's mobile devices.

You can take a look at the video below or hit the link to download it for your device...

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