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 41.0, first offered to Release channel users on September 22, 2015

We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!

Quickly search with different search providers from the search panel
Swipe-to-close tabs on tablets
Overlay to manually search and copy/paste login credentials from login manager when they're not auto-filled
Improved bookmark management with duplicate bookmark detection
Improved box-shadow rendering performance
Open Android applications from a web page via Intent URIs
Locale added: Croatian (hr)

Support for playing MP3 files on Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and above
Various security fixes

Updates to image decoding process
Support for running animations of 'transform' and 'opacity' on the compositor thread
User Agent now includes Android version

Developer Information
Removed support for binary XPCOM components in extensions, use addon SDK "system/child_process" pipe mechanism for native binaries instead
JavaAddonManager can now send, receive and respond to messages from Gecko
Experimental new "speed dial" home panel add-on API (example add-on)
Generic API let's developers create a grid of icons and then optionally allow for a large header image

MessageChannel and MessagePort API enabled by default
Added support for the transform-origin property on SVG elements
Copy/Cut Web content from JavaScript to the OS clipboard with document.execCommand("cut"/"copy")
CSS Font Loading API enabled by default

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