Firefox For Android

I mentioned a number of times the #1 reason to upgrade my Galaxy Note to the Android 4 (aka ICS) was the new Google Chrome browser. The Chrome has been a major step forward in mobile browsing. Important enough to keep me on the ICS, despite all the drawbacks of the official Samsung build I upgraded to (including the nasty battery draining kernel bug).

But on the same day the Google Chrome went out of beta, Firefox offered the revamped beta version of the Android browser. I had tried the Firefox for Android beta before, and it had never won my heart. But the new Firefox for Android is different.

It may sound impossible, but the new Firefox is bigger jump forward from the just released Chrome, than the Chrome has been from the old Gingerbread browser. The Firefox is phenomenal.

And to be honest I cannot point to a single feature that makes the new Firefox phenomenal. It is the overall experience. As a matter of fact it is the best mobile app I have seen. Ever. On any platform. It beats hands down everything iPad and everything else Android. It is polished to the finest detail (still being in beta). It displays every page I go to exactly the way my desktop PC does, but somehow makes the pages easily navigable and readable on a mobile screen. It supports Flash, html5, syncs to the desktop. I could go on and on, but simply, if you have an Android device, just go and try it. Chances are you will like it the way I do.