Released beta version of Firefox 14 for Android

Mozilla has released a beta version of its Firefox browser 14 for the popular mobile platform Android. The new version also reworked GUI, offering support for more than 70 specific smartphones running different versions of Android: version-2.2 (Froyo) to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). The current beta version of Firefox Mobile is only available for phones (tablets are not supported at all) and only in English. At the same time, Mozilla promises to add tablet support, and languages ​​in the near future.

Sami developers a new beta version of Firefox for Android 14 emphasize innovations such as a streamlined interface with the so-called "smart screen» (Awesome Screen), named by analogy with the universal line input Awesome Bar in the desktop version of the browser. In addition, significantly improved the performance of the browser launch and respond to user actions. Provides expedited processing of graphics, scrolling, panning and zooming pages, and hardware acceleration for a number of functions can significantly improve the performance of web-applications, online games and display photographs.

Like the desktop version of Firefox, the new mobile beta version fully supports Adobe Flash, though for that it must maintain the unit itself. The new home page now displays a list of frequently opened web-sites. Updated font scaling technology helps make the web-page as convenient to read. By the way, now the external plugins activated by default after touching the corresponding element on a web-page, that is when the page loads, you can always refuse, for example, view the flash-movies. And another innovation - the developers have changed the system requirements of your browser to improve the user experience from working in a relatively older versions of Android 2.x Froyo.