Firefox for Android Beta
Release Notes

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29.0beta Firefox for Android Beta

March 20, 2014

Version 29.0beta, first offered to Beta channel users on March 20, 2014

New

  • The ability to set up Firefox Sync by creating a Firefox account (learn more)

  • Search suggestions now available with Bing search plugin

  • Hindi [hi-IN] locale added

  • Added multiple quick share buttons

  • Better integration for Open Web Apps

Fixed

  • Improved favicon.ico decoding (748100)

Changed

  • Performance improved by replacing throbber with a progress bar

  • navigator.plugins is no longer enumerable, for user privacy

  • Clicking on a W3C Web Notification will switch to the originating tab

Developer

  • 'box-sizing' (dropping the -moz- prefix) implemented (learn more)

  • Console object available in Web Workers (learn more)

  • Promises enabled by default (learn more)

  • SharedWorker enabled by default

  • <input type="number"> implemented and enabled

  • Synthetic APKs enabled by default

  • Color picker widget implemented, access by using <input type="color">

Unresolved

  • Crashes interacting with the back button on x86 tablets Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 (see 983211)

  • Moving Firefox to background while playing a flash video in full screen mode and bring it back to view will freeze the app (see 809055)

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