Firefox 6 Beta for Android is out on the Market now

The newest version of Firefox Beta for Android is out on the Market now, and it feels impressive. It brings a slew of UI changes, performance improvements, and other fixes and enhancements.

New in this release for Android:

New initial experience: Firefox starts faster and uses less memory. Get to your home page quickly and discover browser features on the side panels.

Higher-quality image scaling: View crisp Web pages and images with less pixelation

Enhanced Firefox experience on large screen tablets

Improvements to the form helper on Android

Fresh visual style on Gingerbread OS

Optimization for pages that use right to left layout rendering, e.g. in Hebrew and Arabic

Touch Events for better interaction with Web pages

IndexedDB allows Web pages to store data offline for faster access

Automatic text hyphenation

It’s a nice improvement all around, but if you like image intensive sites, this update is a must have. It’s free in the Android Market.

Abhijit Bangera

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