New Firefox Interface to Speed up Firefox on Android
Faster start-up, less memory usage, and smoother zooming and panning
Mozilla Director of Firefox Engineering Johnathan Nightingale announced on a mailing list that Firefox is planning to move to Android's native user interface. In order to achieve better performance, Mozilla has decided to ditch the XUL technology and some of the add-ons that are supported at the moment.
Firefox is widely used on personal computers but a rarity on mobile phones, where--unlike Apple's Safari or the unbranded browser Google builds for Android--it's not installed on any phones by default. Firefox is the chief way Mozilla tries to implement its vision of empowering users of the Web and keeping that Web an open technology.
Firefox with a native Android interface should mean faster start-up, less memory usage, and smoother zooming and panning, Nightingale said. The native UI project page for mobile Firefox, aka Fennec, also listed better battery life as a benefit.
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