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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Sony’s PS3 console is about to get a new browser, if the report from PSInsider is to be believed. A source close to Sony hit them up claiming the Japanese multinational is in talks with Mozilla to port Firefox to the console. However, it’s not clear if both the companies have signed the dotted line or not.

This if true, will be a boon to PS3 users as no matter how well PS3 renders games, its integrated browser is a disappointment.

[Via CNet]

Mozilla has finally released the 3.5 version of Firefox. The new build is the fastest Firefox ever built which brings in a lot of improvements like HTML5 support, integrated Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora support, faster Javascript rendering with TraceMonkey, improved Gecko engine, Geolocation, Private Browsing and much more.

Download Firefox from here, you won’t be disappointed.

Users who have no issues trying beta builds can go ahead and download a copy of Firefox’s 3.5 beta 4. Amongst the improvements – there’s a Private Browsing Mode aka Porn mode, new enhanced Javascript engine, improved Gecko layout engine, support for new web technologies and much more.

The beta is available for Windows, Linux and Mac in over 70 languages.

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Good news WinMo fellas or rather Touch Pro users, Mozilla will be releasing its Fennec mobile browser for HTC’s Touch Pro phone in the first week of February. Yes, this will be limited to single WinMo device but at least, that’s a start.

I am sure as soon as the app is released, coders will be doing their best to port it to other WinMo phones.

[Via unwiredview]

Opera behold as here comes Mozilla with their first ever mobile browser, Firefox aka Fennec. Currently in Alpha, the availability for the time being is restricted to just Nokia N810 devices. However, if you’re still interested to give it a spin, Mozilla has got an emulator ready for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users.

The release is just a snippet of Fennec’s capabilities. Do other browser developers need to pull up their socks? Hell yeah!

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I recently came across a nice Firefox extension named Piclens. It is developed by Cooliris and the aim of the addon is to make image and video viewing on Firefox a bit more fun with its 3D Wall interface. The current version 1.7 supports a number of sites like Google Images, Amazon, Flickr, Youtube. Check out the demo here.

Shop Amazon– The 3D Wall transformed image search. Now PicLens launches online shopping into the 21st century. Browse and buy seamlessly just like window shopping!
Discover– MSNBC, ESPN, movie trailers…Get the latest news, photos, and video feeds.
Return to PicLens– An essential for playing with pictures: toggle in and out of your desktop, the browser, and PicLens!

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