Just over two months ago, Mozilla released some dramatic improvements for Firefox on Android phones, making the browser significantly faster. That speed increase has now finally arrived on Android tablet devices as well. The company promises that “everything is quicker, from startup and page load times to panning and zooming and Web app performance.”
Speed aside, Firefox for Android now offers a personalized start page that lets you get to your favorite sites with “one touch.” This latest release includes a new Awesome Screen that includes all of your “browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, and form data” (I’m not sure why I would want the last two on a single page, but the first two sure make sense). Anyway, here’s how the new browser design looks on an Android tablet:
My biggest pet peeve with mobile browsers is when I’m automatically put on the desktop or mobile version, and I want the other one. Thankfully, the latest Firefox for Android lets you switch between the desktop and mobile version of a website by selecting “Request Desktop Site” from the browser Menu. Now all you have to do is remember that it’s there.
