14 DAY TRIAL // Mozilla has just announced that a new version of Firefox beta is now available for download on Android devices. Although it's a beta iteration, Firefox 26 brings lots of new features and improvements that are ready to be tested.
Among the most important changed added, there is the new Home screen that provides users with a quicker and easier way to access their browsing data, including top sites, history, bookmarks, Reading List and a powerful search experience.
According to Mozilla, the new Home screen “is now displayed in a simple set of swipeable panels which provide a much more fluid way to browse the Web. Home is the first thing a user sees when starting a new browsing session, opening a new tab or tapping on the URL bar.”
In the same piece of news, Mozilla has announced that the latest version of Firefox for Android Beta adds a few more search engines, such as Bing and Yahoo!, but only for users in the United States, Canada and France.
The update also improves the Password manager, which now supports script-generated password fields. The rest of the update's changelog is available below:
- 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) There is no longer a prompt when websites use appcache; - (Developer) Support for the CSS image orientation property; - (Developer) IndexedDB can now be used as a "optimistic" storage area so it doesn't require any prompts and data is stored in a pool with LRU eviction policy, in short temporary storage;
Last but not least, the following bugs and issues have been addressed in Firefox Beta 26 for Android:
- When displaying a standalone image, Firefox matches the EXIF orientation information contained within the JPEG image; - Improved page load times due to no longer decoding images that aren't visible; - In some cases, the clip set on the page doesn't update when the address bar hides; - Invalid position:fixed rendering.
You can now download Firefox Beta 26 for Android for free via Softpedia. Keep in mind that the application is fully compatible with all devices running Android 2.2 and up.