Firefox for Android Beta
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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Social services management implemented in Add-ons Manager
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Windows: Firefox now follows display scaling options to render text larger on high-res displays
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Mac OS X: Download progress in Dock application icon
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HTML5 audio/video playback rate can now be changed
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asm.js optimizations (OdinMonkey) enabled for major performance improvements
Changed
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WebRTC is now enabled by default!
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For user security, the |Components| object is no longer accessible from web content
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Pointer Lock API can now be used outside of fullscreen
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Improved memory usage and display time when rendering images
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Improved WebGL rendering performance through asynchronous canvas updates
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Plain text files displayed within Firefox will now word-wrap
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Replace fixed-ratio audio resampler in webrtc.org capture code with Speex resampler and eliminate pseudo-44000Hz rate
Developer
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CSS3 Flexbox implemented and enabled by default
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New built-in font inspector
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Added clipboardData API for JavaScript access to a user's clipboard
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New Web Notifications API implemented
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If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash (see 573369)