Firefox Preview for Android is Here; Promises Faster, More Secure Browsing

Late last year, Mozilla shared its work on including its Gecko web engine into its Android browser – Firefox Focus. The company also shared its progress on separating the Gecko engine to make it a reusable library for creating Android apps that can use the full power of the open web-standards.

Fast forward to today, and the company has announced that it’s releasing a new browser, called Firefox Preview on Android – its first Android app that’s fully built on the Gecko engine, and Mozilla Android components.

With Firefox Preview, Mozilla is hoping tobuild, test, and deliver new features to its users, and the company also says in its blog post that it’ll be using Firefox Preview to“explore new concepts for how mobile browsers should look and feel.”

The Firefox Preview app comes with a bunch of privacy-focused features, includingalways-on tracking protectionto prevent websites from stalking you all across the internet. There are also other useful features such as anew Collections featurethat lets you create collections of tabs that you frequently open together, so you can get back to them quickly when you need to.

There’s adark modehere as well, which you can enable or disable manually, or set to work according to your device’s theme, which is awesome, and definitely something I love.

Firefox Preview isavailable on the Play Storeright now, so you can go ahead and download it to check out what Mozilla is working on, and probably get early access to new and upcoming features that the company is working on.

Akshay Gangwar

Greetings, tech titans and fellow literary time-travelers! I’m Akshay, your tech-whisperer and Harry Potter’s number one stalker – seriously, don’t ask me how many times I’ve read those books; it’s borderline unhealthy.

Working in the tech journalism industry since 2016, I have 7 years of experience covering everything from technology news, to well-researched resource articles. Now the Content Strategist at Beebom, I often pen down op-eds for our website, sharing expert commentary on the latest in technology, AI, and electric cars.

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