Mobile/Platforms/Android

Download Firefox for Android

Firefox for Android is now available. Please check the system requirements below to see if your device is compatible.

• Install Firefox from the Android Market web site
• or go to firefox.com/m in your phone's web browser.

(Or if you have a compatible device without Android Market access, download Firefox for Android directly from our FTP server at bit.ly/fennecftp. You will need to keep Firefox up to date yourself if you do not install it through the Market.)

To learn more about Firefox for Android, visit the Mozilla Mobile web site. You can also try out mobile Firefox on other platforms, including on your Mac, Windows, or Linux PC.

We will continue to release new versions as we improve Firefox. Stay tuned and follow us on Twitter and Facebook to hear about new releases and other announcements. Or read our developer blogs to follow our progress.

System Requirements

Firefox requires Android 2.1 or later and an ARMv7 processor. Installation requires about 17 MB internal or SD card storage. Firefox runs best on devices with at least 512 MB of RAM.

These devices are compatible with Firefox:

• Acer Iconia Tab A500
• Acer Liquid, Liquid A1 (untested)
• Advent Vega (P10AN01)
• Archos 101 Internet Tablet (untested)
• Barnes&Noble Nook Color (root required)
• Dell Streak, Streak 7
• HTC Desire
• HTC Desire S
• HTC Desire HD (AT&T Inspire 4G)
• HTC Droid Incredible/HTC Droid Incredible 2
• HTC EVO 4G, EVO Shift 4G
• HTC Flyer
• HTC Glacier (T-Mobile myTouch 4G)
• HTC Incredible S
• HTC Inspire 4G (untested)
• HTC Nexus One
• HTC Sensation
• HTC Thunderbolt 4G
• Huawei Ideos S7
• LG Optimus 2X
• LG Optimus Black (P970)
• LG Optimus Z
• Motorola Atrix 4G
• Motorola Bravo
• Motorola Cliq 2
• Motorola Defy
• Motorola Droid 2, Droid 2 Global
• Motorola Droid Pro (Motorola PRO)
• Motorola Droid X
• Motorola Xoom
• POV Mobii Tegra Tablet
• Samsung Continuum (i400)
• Samsung Droid Charge
• Samsung Galaxy S (i9000, Captivate, Fascinate, Vibrant, Epic 4G)
• Samsung Galaxy S 4G (untested)
• Samsung Galaxy S II
• Samsung Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1
• Samsung Infuse 4G (untested)
• Samsung Nexus S
• Samsung T-Mobile Sidekick 4G (untested)
• Samsung 4G LTE SCH-i520/Inspiration/Droid Charge/Stealth V
• Sharp Galapagos 003SH, 005SH
• Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
• Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
• Viewsonic gTablet

The following devices have compatible hardware, but may have software problems when running Firefox. These bugs may be fixed in future versions:

• Acer Liquid E - Firefox crashes on startup with Android 2.1 (bug 637424)
• Motorola Charm - does not have the suggested amount of RAM.
• Motorola Droid 1 (Milestone XT720) - does not meet requirements
• Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 - does not have the suggested amount of RAM (384Mb).

These devices have ARMv6 processors and are not compatible with Firefox for Android:

• Android SDK emulator
• Asus Garmin nuvifone A50 (T-Mobile Garminfone)
• Augen GENTouch 78 Tablet
• Coby Kyros Internet Tablet (MID7015)
• Geeksphone One, Geeksphone Zero
• HTC Aria
• HTC ChaCha
• HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1, Android Dev Phone 1)
• HTC Droid Eris
• HTC Espresso (T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide)
• HTC Hero (T-Mobile G2 Touch)
• HTC Legend
• HTC Magic (T-Mobile myTouch 3G, T-Mobile G1 Touch)
• HTC Salsa
• HTC Tattoo
• HTC Wildfire
• Huawei Ascend
• Huawei Ideos U8150-B (T-Mobile Comet)
• Huawei U8110 (T-Mobile Pulse Mini)
• Huawei U8230
• LG Ally (Apex) (LG VS740)
• LG GW620 (Eve, InTouch Max, LinkMe)
• LG Optimus, Optimus M, Optimus T, Optimus S, Optimus V
• LG Vortex
• MAG iMiTO iM7
• MAG iMiTO iM7S
• Motorola Backflip
• Motorola Citrus
• Motorola Cliq (MB200)
• Motorola Dext
• Motorola Devour
• Motorola i1
• Motorola Spice XT300
• Motorola Quench XT5 XT502
• Pandigital Novel
• Samsung Behold, Behold 2
• Samsung GT-S5570 Galaxy Mini
• Samsung i5500 Galaxy 5 (Corby)
• Samsung i5700 Galaxy Portal (Spica)
• Samsung i5800 Galaxy 3
• Samsung i7500 Galaxy
• Samsung Intercept
• Samsung M900 Moment
• Samsung S5830 Galaxy Ace
• Samsung Transform
• Sanyo ZIO M6000
• Sony Ericsson Xperia X8
• Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini
• Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro
• Superpad 10.2" Tablet PC
• Viewsonic ViewPad 7 Tablet
• Velocity Micro T103 Cruz tablet
• Vodafone 845
• ZTE Blade / San Francisco
• ZTE Light / V9

Known Issues

These are some of the bugs in the latest builds. We are working on fixing them.

• Adobe Flash and other plugins are not supported yet (bug 630007, experimental support for Android 2.x devices in Firefox 10).
• Firefox has some problems when used with the Swype and Swiftkey X keyboards (bug 672661 - fixed in Firefox 9).
• The hardware keyboard and touchpad of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer does not work correctly (bug 662219, bug 669361, bug 677155 - fixed in Firefox 9).

See also the release notes, and the complete list of open Android bugs and tracked bugs in Bugzilla.

Support

If you have questions or trouble with Firefox for mobile, please see our dedicated Mobile Support site.

Download Firefox Beta

Install Firefox Beta if you want to help us test the next version of Firefox for Android.

Firefox Beta contains new features and changes that are ready for widespread testing before we include them in the next official Firefox release. You can install both Firefox and Firefox Beta at the same time if you want to use both versions.

Download instructions:

1. Check the system requirements below to see if Firefox Beta is compatible with your Android device.
2. Install Firefox Beta from the Android Market web site.

(Or if you have a compatible device without access to the Android Market, you can download the Firefox Beta directly from our FTP server. You will need to keep Firefox Beta updated yourself if you do not install it through the Android Market.)

Firefox Beta is also available for other platforms! Go to firefox.com/channel to learn more and download Firefox Beta for your computer.

Download Aurora

If you want to test or preview Firefox 11, you can download a build from the Aurora channel. If you want to, you can install Aurora alongside the official released version of Firefox, and use both on the same device.

The Aurora channel provides an early preview of the next Firefox Beta release. Although Aurora is more stable than our nightly development builds, it is not yet fully tested and is not the same quality as official beta or release versions. Aurora will offer to update itself automatically about once a day, as we make improvements available.

See the ReadMe below about information regarding the new Native builds available on the Aurora channel.

Download instructions:

1. Check the system requirements below to see if Aurora is compatible with your Android device.
2. Download Aurora directly onto your Android device by scanning the barcode to the right, or by entering the URL in your device's web browser.
3. Open the "apk" file when it finishes downloading.

Download location:

• Short URL: http://bit.ly/fennecaurora11
• Full URL: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-mozilla-aurora-android/fennec-11.0a2.multi.android-arm.apk

Download Nightly

If you are actively developing or testing Firefox features that are not yet released to the Aurora or Beta channels, you can download a Nightly build. You may install and use Nightly alongside builds from other channels (Firefox, Beta, Aurora). The nightly channel is a snapshot of our very latest development work, before it is ready for widespread testing. This is our least stable update channel, and is not recommended for most users. Nightly builds provide an early preview of work that will eventually be included in Firefox 11 or later. Nightly will offer to update itself automatically about once a day with the latest changes from our developers.

See the ReadMe below about information regarding the new Native builds available on the Nightly channel.

Download instructions:

1. Check the system requirements below to see if Nightly is compatible with your Android device.
2. Download the nightly build directly onto your Android device by scanning the barcode to the right, or by entering the URL in your device's web browser.
3. Open the "apk" file when it finishes downloading.

Download location:

• Short URL: http://bit.ly/nightly12
• Full URL: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-mozilla-central-android/fennec-12.0a1.multi.android-arm.apk

ReadMe: Native UI Builds

We have now merged our rewrite for the Firefox UI using the native Android toolkit, to our nightly and aurora channels.

Fennec Native uses the same storage for bookmarks and history (but not for passwords) as the default Android browser (and some other 3rd party Android browsers). If you have chosen to backup application data on your device, this bookmark and history data may be backed up to Google's servers. This is a change from previous versions of Fennec, where data was stored internally to Fennec and only synced off device if the user chose to use Mozilla Sync.

Tablet Users

Firefox 10 for mobile which includes UI designed specifically for tablets, is now available on the Beta Channel.

Known issues

• Sync
  • bug 695463: Sync is not currently supported

• Zooming
  • bug 703036: Swipe gestures aggressively zoom content in and out
  • bug 701830: Rescaling at new resolution after zoom does not occur
  • bug 701594: Should not be able to stay zoomed out further than the page width
  • bug 697701: Support double-tap gesture to zoom

• Content
  • bug 702676 Fennec paints only some parts of the page
  • bug 694901 Pages may be wider or smaller than the viewable screen
  • bug 700224 content area sized incorrectly

• Navigation
  • bug 699412: After viewing some pages, switching tabs or navigating back to prior pages do not display at all in content view

• Context Menu
  • bug 703617: Context Menu is triggered if a single tap action is performed over the URL Bar (only happens on some phones)

• Text
  • bug 696319: Text Input will not scroll into view / Keyboard may cover form input elements in a page

• Flash
  • bug 702992 Flash elements may get drawn out of position when panning

• Tabs
  • bug 701884: Pages do not display after switching to a certain tab and closing it
  • bug 704116: Popups are opened in the same tab
  • bug 703776: movie (webm) content continues to play after switching tabs
  • bug 703601: Flash content continues to play after switching tabs

• Clear Data
  • bug 704172: Clear data for application doesn't clear bookmarks or history
• HKB
  • bug 704156: Unable to overwrite selection in awesome bar using HKB

ARMv6 (experimental)

Sorry, the experimental ARMv6 builds are no longer available. They contained bugs that caused them to crash immediately, so they were no longer useful for testing.

While we'd like Firefox to run on as many phones as possible, we are focusing first on devices that can run current versions of Firefox with acceptable performance. As we improve Firefox's speed and memory use, it might become possible for us to support ARMv6 phones in the future, but we are not actively working on it now.

What's new?

New in Firefox 9

• Firefox 9 release notes.
• Even faster start-up
• Fixes for bugs affecting some keyboards, including Swype.
• New user interface for tablets
• Support for Open Web Apps
• New features for developers

New in Firefox 10 (Beta)

• Sync setup improvements
• Many small bug fixes and polish for the new Tablet UI.

New in Firefox 11 (Aurora)

• Conversion to native java front-end
• Faster startup time and a speedier, more responsive browser
• Flash video playback
• Click-to-play support for Flash videos and games
• New User Interface Design
• New tabbed browsing UI
• New awesome bar UI
• Asynchronous panning and zooming
• Redesigned add-ons manager

Development

Firefox for Android is part of the Fennec project to bring the full Firefox web browser to mobile devices.

See Mobile/Fennec/Android for build instructions, developer documentation, and more project status.