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.

Version 18.0, first offered to Release channel users on January 8, 2013

Faster JavaScript performance via IonMonkey compiler
Support for Retina Display on OS X 10.7 and up
Preliminary support for WebRTC

18.0.2: Fix JavaScript related stability issues
18.0.1 Problems involving HTTP Proxy Transactions (bug 828632,bug 828202,bug 828202,bug 829646,)
18.0.1 Unity player crashes on Mac OS X (bug 828954)
18.0.1 Disabled HIDPI support only on external monitors to avoid rendering glitches (bug 814434)
Support for Transferable objects
Various security fixes
Improved responsiveness for users on proxies

Experience better image quality with our new HTML scaling algorithm
Performance improvements around tab switching

Developer Information
Support for new DOM property window.devicePixelRatio
Improvement in startup time through smart handling of signed extension certificates

Support for W3C touch events implemented, taking the place of MozTouch events

Disable insecure content loading on HTTPS pages through an about:config pref
Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode
Plugins stop rendering when the top half of the plugin is scrolled off the top of the page, in HiDPI mode
Certain valid WebGL drawing operations are incorrectly rejected,
leaving incomplete rendering in affected pages

If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash (see 573369)

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