Will Revamped Firefox for Android Give Google Chrome a Run for its Money?

By David Tobia
June 27, 2012

After a month of beta testing, Mozilla has released its official Firefox app for Android.
The app “sports a slick new interface, incredibly fast startup and browsing speeds, support for Adobe Flash, and new HTML5 features,” reports VentureBeat.
The Firefox app functions with Android 2.2 devices and higher, while Google’s Chrome beta app only works on Android 4.0 devices. “That gives the new Firefox a potential market of around 94 percent of Android devices, while Chrome only has 7 percent of the market running Android 4.0 or newer,” according to the post.
“The new Android Firefox app isn’t just fast, it’s also gorgeous,” notes VentureBeat. “When you first launch it, you’re presented with a start screen that features your most recently and frequently visited sites. There’s a new tab interface that’s a far leap beyond the previous Firefox app, and the mere act of scrolling through websites feels smoother.”
Although Firefox claims to operate up to two times as fast as Chrome, the hands-on review suggests that the two services on average operate at similar speeds on most sites.

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