Firefox 4 Beta for Android: Very Slow on Droid, Acceptable Speed on Nexus One, Many Missing Features

The Firefox browser for mobile phones has a long and twisty history. It started out as a project named Minimo back in 2004, was restarted and renamed Fennec in 2008, and now appears to be simply Firefox for mobile. Three years ago, Susan Schrank provided this announcement in this blog.

Mobile Firefox for Linux, Windows Mobile By Year-end

In the fall of 2009, I wrote:

Mozilla Fennec Alpha 3 for Windows Mobile: Unuseable Right Now But Worth Waiting For

In year 8 of its off-and-on development, we learn this from the Mozilla blog:

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