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on: Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser
Say goodbye to XUL: the major update uses a native Android UI.
Browsing Ars Technica in Firefox for Android  Mozilla has
released a major new version of the Firefox Web browser for
Android. The developers have greatly improved the performance
and responsiveness of the application while introducing a new
user interface that is built with native widgets.  We first
reported on Firefox for Android in 2010 after compiling an early
experimental implementation from source code. The project has
evolved considerably over the past two years. Version 14 of
Firefox for Android finally offers a highly competitive
alternative to the platform’s default browser.  Much like its
desktop counterpart, the original Firefox port for Android had a
unique user interface built with Mozilla’s XUL framework, an
XML-based user interface layout system supported by Firefox’s
Gecko rendering engine. After consid