Mozilla has released the alpha version of Fennec, available to download here. The mobile version of Mozilla’s popular Firefox browser syncs with the Awesome Bar browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, form-fill data, and open tabs from your computers Firefox. The final version of Fennec will look to standout based on two major technologies it will incorporate, “Electrolysis” and “Layers”. The former is implemented in this alpha version.
Electrolysis, which allows the browser interface to run in a separate process from the one rendering Web content. By doing this, Fennec is able to react much faster to user input while pages are loading or CPU intensive JavaScript is running.
Layers won’t find it’s way onto your Android phone until the beta release.
The upcoming beta release will start taking advantage of Layers to greatly improve performance in graphic intensive actions like scrolling, zooming, animations and video.
Google has already been hard at work bringing us features like Chrome to Phone but Mozilla has proven to be very good at this browser stuff in the past. I for one love to see the competition, which will only lead to a better product.
[via The Mozilla Blog]
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