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The internet's already had this huge effect on our lives
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It's changed the way we do almost everything
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but everything it's done so far still mostly been in this pretty artificial setup of
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a person sitting in front of a machine at a table.
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With mobile suddenly the internet can affect the rest of our lives
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the away we usually live which is and about with people
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I'm really excited to say that Firefox is now available for Android phones
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in addition to the Nokia N900.
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We're really focused on bringing it to the Android platform.
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We're really excited about that... being able to bring Firefox to a really really large number of users.
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We can't just assume that because you love Firefox in your desktop you're gonna love it in on your mobile device.
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We have to make a very compelling browser that is just fun to use
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and gets the job done quickly
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I work in a project called Electrolysis
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its goal is to improve responsiveness
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so while you're panning and zooming and interacting with the UI
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the web pages can render and do whatever they need to be doing
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in a separate process and not slow you down.
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I work on a lot of things but one the things I am pretty excited about is the multitouch work
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we're doing which will do things that everyone wants to do like pinch to zoom
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and we're going to optimize pinch to zoom to work very fast and smooth and also other gestures
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like back and forward
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Firefox for mobile is built on the same technology platform as Firefox 4 for the desktop
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just optimized for mobile.
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We think we are really excited about the front-end things we have introduced to make sharing easier
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It should be really easy to find pictures and web pages that you like
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and easily send them or share them with your friends.
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One of the other big pieces that Firefox brings to mobile is add-ons,
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one of very popular features in the desktop
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So just like on your PC there's many add-ons to choose from
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you can install and make your browser experience better, or more fun
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or look the way you want it to look.
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Firefox for mobile has become even more personalized than ever before.
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The Firefox start page now gives you tabs from other computers with Firefox Sync,
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tabs that you had opened the last time you were browsing on your mobile,
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and even suggests you add-ons that help you get the most out of firefox.
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This creates a very unique customizable personal browsing experience for each and every user.
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The Firefox for mobile devices we have great support for HTML 5: we have geolocation, app tabs, local storage,
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the whole range of features that make ita really powerful development tool
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and what's best you can use web technology like HTML5, JavaScript, CSS
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that work across a wide variety of platforms and devices.
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You get the breadth of the web with all the power of HTML5.
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If you like Firefox on the desktop we think you'll love Firefox on your mobile phone.