Mobile/Fennec/NativeUI/Nightly: Difference between revisions

Firefox on Android is extremely important to Mozilla’s mission. We are delivering an exceptional mobile Web experience for users, with the performance, personalization and security they expect. We are also providing a platform for developers to keep the mobile Web open. Android continues to be a strategic mobile OS for Firefox to establish Gecko as a top-tier mobile Web platform. And we do all of this work in the shared Mozilla source repositories so all platforms, desktop and mobile, benefit each other. <br>

Mozilla is embarking on the ambitious target to re-architect Firefox using a native Android user interface. This evolved product will deliver improvements to start-up time, memory usage, UI responsiveness and battery usage. Our plan is very ambitious, and will require everyone’s help and efforts for success.  

In a short period of time, we have made enormous progress and have quite an exciting experience already; but the mobile development team really needs more filed bugs so testing Nightlies in the meantime is even more crucial to the product’s development. Nightly builds are generally for developers and contributors who are directly involved with building and testing Firefox to verify and test bugs. Nightly users should expect exciting changes with every update, as well as instability, possible regressions, and many bugs. Nightly users now can already feel the drastic differences from XUL-based Firefox, and identifying more bugs is critical to continue improving the product.