Firefox Mobile 4 Beta Now Available For Android & Maemo.

Firefox 4 Beta includes Firefox Sync to create a seamless Web browsing experience between desktop and mobile. With Firefox Sync, you can take your browsing history, bookmarks, tabs, passwords and form-fill data with you anywhere so you never have to retype passwords or long URLs again. Your Firefox data is completely encrypted end-to-end between your computers so that only you have access to it. (For those using Firefox Sync, be sure you’re up to date.)

This release delivers a rich set of features, including pinch-to-zoom, which is now supported on multitouch-capable devices, and the Awesome Screen, which instantly gives you access to your recent history, bookmarks and tabs just by tapping in the Awesome Bar. See the release notes for a full list of features included in this release.

Firefox 4 Beta for mobile is significant step forward in sharing a personalized, seamless and encrypted Web experience across devices. Developers have the power to use the latest Web technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to to build fast, powerful and beautiful mobile apps and add-ons that can reach millions of devices. We are excited to see the innovative and valuable mobile add-ons that developers will build for Firefox.









Below are some of the features of Mozilla’s latest mobile endeavor

Pinch-to-zoom (Android), double-tap, or use the volume rocker (Nokia N900) to zoom in and out

Tabbed browsing in thumbnail view lets you easily see and open the site you want

Location-Aware Browsing gives you content and info relevant to your location

Find in Page in the Site Menu lets you quickly find text on the webpage

Share Page in the Site Menu lets you send content to email, Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader

Forget Password in the Site Menu tells a website you no longer trust to forget your private data

Add Search Engine in the Site Menu lets you quickly add a new search engine to your Awesome Screen

Context Menu lets you Open in New Tab and Share by long tapping and holding a link

Smart Tapping lets you tap on links, widgets and other Web content with accuracy

Password Manager lets you choose to remember site password to avoid typing. 

This post was written by: Franklin Manuel

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