Mozilla upgrades Firefox for Android

Mozilla has launched the latest version of Firefox for Android-powered smartphones. The official Mozilla blog states, “You’ll notice dramatic performance improvements that make Firefox on your Android phone super fast with everything from startup and page load times to panning and zooming and Web app performance. We also optimized your favorite features like tabbed browsing, Firefox Sync and Firefox Add-ons to deliver the best mobile browsing experience possible.” Firefox for Android updated Firefox now supports direct search from the address bar itself, with all Google searches now utilizing HTTPS. The Mozilla blog also claims that this version of Firefox is faster than the stock Android browser. Mozilla stated on the Firefox Google Play store page that it has “Updated minimum system requirements to Android 2.2+ for optimized experience.” Moreover, in-browser Flash is not supported on Android tablets and Tegra 2 devices running on Gingerbread.