Mozilla overhauls Firefox on Android in bid to stop Chrome
Mozilla wants to hit Google where it hurts: on its own Android mobile operating system.
Google’s control over the internet – especially on Android devices, (get
Lineageos–ed) where it provides both the operating system and its most widely used web browser, Chrome – has long been a cause of concern for many people. One of Google’s biggest competitors in the web browsing space, Mozilla, is looking to challenge Chrome’s dominance with the release of Firefox Preview
– a drastically reimagined version of its Firefox browser for Android devices (you can download it from http://bit.ly/lxf253ffpdownload 3).
As the name suggests, Firefox Preview is currently in early beta testing, with Mozilla promising a “feature-rich, polished version of this flagship application available for this fall.” This new version of Firefox will combine the privacy emphasis of Firefox Focus – a paredback browser that prevents your internet browsing being seen by trackers – with a fullyfledged mobile browser. It’ll run on the Geckoview mobile browser engine, which Mozilla will continue to adapt for use on Android to provide improved performance.
Crucially, it means Firefox Preview isn’t yet another mobile browser that uses the Blink engine – part of the Chromium project – and so it offers an alternative to Google’s tech. According to Mozilla’s release announcement for Firefox Preview (http://bit.ly/ Lxf253firefoxpreview), the new browser will be twice as fast as previous versions of Firefox on Android, have a fast and minimalist interface, allow you to stay organised with Collections for grouping websites, and have tracking protection on by default. It all sounds rather promising, and as we mentioned earlier, a beta version is available now.