For more and more people mobile devices are the primary way, or even the only way, to access the Web. But at the moment the mobile web suffers from closed and controlled software platforms and a tendency towards a browser monoculture.
Firefox for Android (codenamed Fennec) is an open, hackable, standards-based alternative browser, just like the desktop Firefox.
There are two different flavors of Firefox for Android, one for tablets and one for phones:
- the original version of Firefox for Android, like the desktop Firefox, uses XUL to construct its user interface. This is still the version aimed at, and officially supported on, tablets.