Johnathan Nightingale, who happens to be the director of Firefox engineering, has made a post stating that Mozilla will build future versions of Firefox on Android with a native UI. The developers hope that building UI with native code, as opposed to the current use of XUL, the browser will be able to load up on Android substantially faster and also take up significantly less memory.
In addition, the native UI could also improve the zooming and panning performance of the browser. While the team works on a build with native UI implementation, the next two versions of the browser (Firefox 8 and 9) will ship with the XUL UI.
While the native UI should improve experience for the users, Firefox extension developers could have extra work on their hands. The dev team has acknowledged this possibility and they are working with the Add-On SDK team about the "best way to support Extensions".
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