Firefox Mobile 14 for Android is here
Mozilla last week announced big things coming to Firefox for Android in a Twitter message without revealing too much about what they meant by that. Today, Mozilla has released the next version of Firefox for Android that is faster and more powerful than the previously available app for the operating system.
Firefox for Android has been redesigned to improve the browser's performance on Android devices. According to Mozilla, this makes the browser faster than the stock browsers that ship with android phones. Mozilla even created a new benchmark that it says measures "actual user Web experience". In this benchmark, Firefox renders nearly twice as many frames per second than Opera or Chrome for Android, and three times the fps of the previous Firefox version for Android, the Dolphin browser, and the default Android browser.
The browser features a personalized start page that is displaying top sites, a speed dial like feature to access often used sites with a single tap of the finger. Firefox desktop users may be interested that the Android version is now supporting Firefox Sync, Mozilla's data synchronization service, as it is now possible to synchronize bookmarks, passwords, the browsing history and form data between Firefox for Android and desktop versions of the web browser.
Firefox for Android users can also install add-ons in the mobile browser, and access Flash contents on Android. As far as accessing contents that require plugins go, Mozilla has implemented a tap-to-play feature to block plugin contents from loading automatically when the sites they are embedded on are accessed.
From a security standpoint, desktop features such as Do Not Track or the Master Password have been integrated into the mobile browser to improve the overall security of it on the mobile phone.
Lastly, the developers have improved the browser's HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and open web standards capabilities.Android users who are interested in trying out the new version of Firefox for their mobile operating system find the download in the Google Play Store. The full release notes are available on this page.
Firefox for Android is compatible with Android 2.1 and above devices. The software requires 17 Megabytes of storage, and at least 512 Megabytes of RAM on the device.
Have you tried the new Firefox Mobile 14 browser for Android yet? If so, what is your impression, especially in comparison to other browsers that you may have used or tested on the device?
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.