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Mozilla has launched a new beta of its Firefox browser for mobile phones. The Firefox 4 beta for Maemo and Android is built on the same platform as for the desktop and brings a lot of similar features.

This release emphasizes on performance and responsiveness and features Electrolysis and Layers. Electrolysis makes the browser and web content run as a separate process, making the browser more responsive whereas Layer works to improve performance by efficiently handling graphic areas like scrolling, zooming etc.

Other features you’d find are Firefox Sync, add-ons, Awesome Bar and support for latest web technologies.

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