Android users who’ve managed to install Fennec onto their devices thus far have probably come to the general conclusion that it’s slow, buggy, and simply not that great. It’s not without reason though — Fennec was never officially released for Android in any form. But good things come to those who wait.

According to Mozilla/Fennec team member Matt Brubeck, this fall will see the release of Fennec 2 for MeeGo….and Android. Obviously, major performance and reliability improvements are slated for release, namely new features called “electrolysis” and “layers” as well as Firefox Sync. The first, Electrolysis, is simple a splitting of one major resource (as Fennec operates currently) into several smaller resources, which greatly improves performance and is more resistant to crashing. Along the same lines, the GPU of your device will also be called into action with Layers, helping with the aforementioned performance increase by relieving the CPU of being the only worker on the job. The same offloading of tasks to the GPU is finally gaining steam on the desktop front, so it’s nice to see the mobile sphere following the same path so quickly.

Lastly, Firefox Sync is a simple tool to keep your Mozilla favorites, bookmarks, etc. organized across browsers, platforms, and computers. It’s a useful tool that truly doesn’t show it’s real value until you being using multiple computers daily.

With waning market share on the desktop front, can Mozilla’s mobile efforts make up for that slack and win you back over? Or, are other platforms/browsers (iOS and Safari, Android and mobile Chrome etc.) too far ahead for you to care?

Source:
IntoMobile