Firefox for Android
Release Notes
Release Notes tell you what’s new in Firefox. As always, we welcome your feedback. You can also file a bug in Bugzilla or see the system requirements of this release.
New
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Quickly search with different search providers from the search panel
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Swipe-to-close tabs on tablets
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Overlay to manually search and copy/paste login credentials from login manager when they're not auto-filled
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Improved bookmark management with duplicate bookmark detection
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Improved box-shadow rendering performance
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Open Android applications from a web page via Intent URIs
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Locale added: Croatian (hr)
Fixed
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Support for playing MP3 files on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and above
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Various security fixes
Changed
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Updates to image decoding process
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Support for running animations of 'transform' and 'opacity' on the compositor thread
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User Agent now includes Android version
Developer
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Removed support for binary XPCOM components in extensions, use addon SDK "system/child_process" pipe mechanism for native binaries instead
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JavaAddonManager can now send, receive and respond to messages from Gecko
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Experimental new "speed dial" home panel add-on API (example add-on)
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Generic API let's developers create a grid of icons and then optionally allow for a large header image
Web Platform
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MessageChannel and MessagePort API enabled by default
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Added support for the transform-origin property on SVG elements
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Copy/Cut Web content from JavaScript to the OS clipboard with document.execCommand("cut"/"copy")
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CSS Font Loading API enabled by default
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