Besides the UI overhaul aka Austrilas, Firefox 29 features a new and improved Firefox Sync. I didn’t really know what was so new about it since I had tried a long time ago to use it without much success. Turns out, Mozilla has made the sign-up as well as management processes a lot simpler now. This help article checks your user agent and will automatically direct you to Sync instructions based on what browser you are using. Reading through this article you will see the current method is very complicated and time consuming. Note: If you click the link in Firefox…
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Just Released Firefox 28 Firefox for Android 28 Firefox 24.4.0 ESR Firefox 29 Beta (29.0b1) Firefox 30 Aurora (30.0a2) Future Releases April 29th Firefox 29 Firefox for Android 29 Firefox 24.5.0 ESR Firefox 30 Beta (30.0b1)* Firefox 31 Aurora (31.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days.
Mozilla released the next update for Firefox Desktop and Mobile (Android) users on Tuesday, March 18th. Firefox 28 for Desktop and Mobile included these updates: Desktop Mobile NEW VP9 video decoding implemented Mac OS X: Notification Center support for web notifications Horizontal HTML5 audio/video volume control Support for Opus in WebM CHANGED Now that spdy/3 is implemented support for spdy/2 has been removed and servers without spdy/3 will negotiate to http/1 without any penalty DEVELOPER Support for MathML 2.0 ‘mathvariant’ attribute Background thread hang reporting Support for multi-line flexbox in layout FIXED Various security fixes UNRESOLVED Echo cancellation on apprtc.appspot.com…
“The all new Home on Firefox for Android is here and it’s going to make browsing the Web on your mobile device faster, simpler and more amazing than ever. …” Source: Firefox & You More Home on Firefox for Android
Mozilla has had the Firefox OS on smartphones for a while now. Next up is tablets. Mozilla’s own Asa Dotzier, director of Firefox OS, has now provided the hardware specs of the Foxconn-made reference Firefox OS tablet. It’s very similar to the Infocus nFocus New Tab F1, which sells for around $400 USD. The tablet sports a 10.1-inch IPS multi-touch screen with a 1280 x 800 resolution that is backed by a quad-core Allwinner A31 chip clocked at 1 GHz, PowerVR SGX544MP2 graphics, and 2 GB of DDR3 memory. Other features include 16 GB of internal memory, a 2MP camera…
Firefox 27 was originally scheduled for release on Tuesday, January 21st, 2014. However, due to Mozilla shutting down their operations until January 6th, they have opted to push the release back two weeks to ensure the build quality is not sacrificed. The new release date for Firefox 27 (desktop and Android) as well as 24.3esr is now Tuesday February 4th, 2014. via Firefox Future Releases
Mozilla released the next update for Firefox Mobile users on Tuesday, December 10th. Firefox 26 included these updates: NEW Updated about:home interface with Top Sites thumbnails, and ability to pin tabs to home page Password manager now supports script-generated password fields Performance improvements on some Nvidia devices CSP implementation now supports multiple policies, including the case of both an enforced and Report-Only policy, per the spec DEVELOPER Math.ToFloat32 takes a JS value and converts it to a Float32, whenever possible There is no longer a prompt when websites use appcache Support for the CSS image orientation property IndexedDB can now…
Just Released None Coming Soon October 29th Firefox 25 Firefox for Android 25 Firefox 24.0.1 ESR Firefox 26 Beta (25.0b1)* Firefox 27 Aurora (26.0a2)* Future Releases December 10th Firefox 26 Firefox for Android 26 Firefox 24.0.2 ESR Firefox 27 Beta (27.0b1)* Firefox 28 Aurora (28.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days.
Just Released None Coming Soon September 17th Firefox 24 Firefox for Android 24 Firefox 24.0.0 ESR Firefox 25 Beta (25.0b1)* Firefox 26 Aurora (26.0a2)* Future Releases October 29 Firefox 25 Firefox for Android 25 Firefox 24.0.1 ESR Firefox 26 Beta (25.0b1)* Firefox 27 Aurora (26.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days.
Just Released August 6th Firefox 23 Firefox for Android 23 Firefox 17.0.8 ESR Firefox 24 Beta (24.0b1)* Firefox 25 Aurora (25.0a2)* August 16th Firefox 23.0.1 Coming Soon September 17th Firefox 24 Firefox for Android 24 Firefox 24.0.0 ESR Firefox 25 Beta (25.0b1)* Firefox 26 Aurora (26.0a2)* Future Releases October 29th Firefox 25 Firefox for Android 25 Firefox 24.0.1 ESR Firefox 26 Beta (26.0b1)* Firefox 27 Aurora (27.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by…