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hey guys it's brandon from pocketnow.com mozilla has just released a new version of firefox mobile beta for there's a lot of speed and stability improvements and in this video we're going to talk about all of them let's get to it all right so we'll put a link up in the description on how to get this free browser and let's go into firefox mobile here and talk about how that fares overall as a web browser then we're going to get into some of the advanced features that makes firefox mobile unique so of course in firefox mobile you have tabbed browsing accessible with a swipe to the right and this is one of the best features because it allows for superfast tab management so we can just bounce between these websites it handles multiple websites loaded in tabs very very well so here we have a page let's just take a look at how it does with panning and scrolling so we've gizmodo let's flick down the page quickly and see if we get any checkerboard no checkerboard but we do get a blank spot firefox mobile oftentimes has trouble keeping up but if you move a little bit more slowly it's just fine and it does have multitouch support so you can pinch to zoom in you can double tap to reflow a column in and out looks quite good let's load up a page and see how long it takes you'll find that firefox mobile isn't as fast as the stock froyo browser yet but it's definitely quite usable and quite fast overall so here it's loading probably going to take about 15 seconds maybe a little bit less and here we have some flash video and it says click here to download plugin curious to see what happens if you actually do that because firefox mobile does have extensions looks like nothing's going to happen fair enough okay so that's tabbed browsing it works extremely well and it's more stable than ever here in the latest version of firefox mobile so let's talk about some of the other stuff let's go to another web page let's go to google when you tap the address bar you get a lot of cool options starting on the left it shows you all pages so this will query recent pages that you've gone to to the right you have bookmarks so you don't even have to dial into a separate screen it's all within this one interface when you tap on the address bar very handy if you go to history you can quickly dial down by your history and this is super cool you can't see it because it's shade but desktop so this will actually look at the pages that you've recently looked at on your desktop if you've got firefox sync setup that's one of the best features of mozilla firefox mobile is that you can sync up passwords bookmarks and history with your desktop computer and your phone super cool if you are a Firefox user so instead we're going to go out of here and talk about some of the settings and here's on here's google to get to the settings we swipe to the left and then we get over here bookmark icon and down here is setting so let's dial into that we've got four tabs along the top about Firefox language here's the sync settings so if you are using Firefox Sync on your desktop you plug in your account name password and sync key and within seconds you've got all your data on your phone synchronized at all times really cool feature if you use Firefox show images in April JavaScript to the right we have a download manager to the right we have a Don so just like Firefox for the desktop you can get add-ons and extensions for firefox mobile now in the past there haven't been that many add-ons and extensions many of them didn't work but the library is growing let me show you so down here we go to go to page and we can browse the extensions and take a look at what's available for Firefox for mobile okay so here we are this is actually a special site you can visit this site on your desktop computer if you want to get a sense on a big screen for what is out there so here are a bunch of different items that you can download let's go to the categories and drill into a category and actually install a plug-in so I'm gonna go to performance okay so here's a bunch of plugins saw one pretty cool over here that would be fun to download called hold for tab so this will allow you to open up a page in a new tab I've yet to install it so you're going to see it live here if you want to open up a page in a new tab you tap and hold on a link pretty handy to have especially with this awesome tabbed browsing that's actually kind of one of the annoyances of Firefox for mobile is that you may accidentally bring open the tab drawer without meaning to so we'll go to add to mobile you click that button says this add-on has not been updated to this version so I'm going to click install anyway and see if it works so it's going to proceed to download you get a notification up here in the tray it says hold for tab cannot be installed because it's not it doesn't work for this particular version so let's try again with another plug-in and see if we can get something else to work we have URL fixer low quality flash adblock no script some weird behavior the page is flicking in and out tabs utility hold for tab lazy click let's do this one find in page that looks really handy to be able to search for text within a page maybe this one will work all right zoom in here add to mobile yeah it probably won't work here a lot of these haven't been updated for the fourth beta yet so they're probably not going to work but let's try this and see if it works fine if age could not be installed because it's not available for this version so you get the point there are a lot of addons right now they just need to be updated for the new version of Firefox so that when they are updated you'll be able to access them here through the add-on manager and presumably there will be a lot of really creative ways to plug into this mobile experience through add-ons which will be great and finally over here on the right is beta tester tools so you can give feedback you can learn more about this beta you can see the particular bill here it's for point 0 b 2 and force add-ons compatibility that may actually be something that we could check and maybe get the add-on stork let's do that real quick okay so we're back here and let's try fastest scroll we've added the force add-ons to work option here in firefox mobile maybe this will allow us to check out this particular plugin here okay so i'm confirming here that it is installed here fast to scroll in the West not in the world so we're loading gizmodo here we're going to see if we can flick really quickly down the page with this new extension add-on for Mozilla mobile so here we go seems to be okay it's done loading so let's see if we can get down to the page really quickly so I'm going to flick really fast and it's going to clear up and we're actually at the bottom of the page already so the extension works pretty neat to be able to add extensions to mozilla firefox mobile beta 4 so again it will put a link up in the description on how to get this for your android it's almost good enough to use at your daily browser as awesome tab management it works with firefox sync and of course you can add extensions to your mobile browser which is awesome please thumbs up this video if you liked it and thanks for watching that's it for now