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Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser (ars technica)Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser (ars technica)Posted Jun 26, 2012 15:05 UTC (Tue) by ptman (subscriber, #57271)Parent article: Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser (ars technica)
Chrome for Android has sync as well, including tab sync. But I guess it's ICS+ only, whereas Firefox works on older Android releases? Google's big problems really is to get everyone on a recent Android release.
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Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser (ars technica) Posted Jun 26, 2012 15:35 UTC (Tue) by flammon (guest, #807) [Link]
It's my big problem too.
Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser (ars technica) Posted Jun 26, 2012 15:46 UTC (Tue) by pranith (subscriber, #53092) [Link]
chrome is really a memory hog, not to mention of the multiple processes it creates. It is always running in the background even when you explicitly close it.
Compared to that firefox is pretty light. I've switched back to firefox even on the desktop just to be in sync on my mobile.
Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser (ars technica) Posted Jun 26, 2012 22:11 UTC (Tue) by idupree (subscriber, #71169) [Link]
Firefox Sync makes sure that even Mozilla can't see your data. Is Google's that careful?
Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser (ars technica) Posted Jun 28, 2012 2:31 UTC (Thu) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]
Thanks for pointing this out. Mozilla's double encryption technique on their sync was the "right way to do it", and everything about how Chromium peer pressures and ridicules you into giving them your Google account is mega-creepy.
Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser (ars technica) Posted Jun 29, 2012 2:46 UTC (Fri) by lordsutch (guest, #53) [Link]
Chrome (Desktop at least) also supports double-encryption with a user-selected passphrase.
Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser (ars technica) Posted Jun 28, 2012 6:56 UTC (Thu) by cpeterso (guest, #305) [Link]
Firefox for Android supports Froyo (Android 2.2) and above, which accounts for about 87% of Android devices. Chrome for Android only supports ICS and Jelly Bean.
Plus, ARMv6 builds of Firefox are coming soon: http://armenzg.blogspot.com/2012/06/initial-automated-arm...
Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser (ars technica) Posted Jun 28, 2012 13:37 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
> Firefox for Android supports Froyo (Android 2.2) and above, which accounts for about 87% of Android devices.
According to the latest https://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platfor..., 2.2 and above accounts for 93.9% of the Android devices which use the Android Market.
Also, when you install the Android SDK on Eclipse, it currently recommends that you target API level 8 (that is, 2.2 and above - see https://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/api-levels.html). Their new "Google Play services" API will be 2.2 and above only (see https://developers.google.com/android/google-play-service...). Google seems to be abandoning 2.1 and below.
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