Firefox for Android started using notification channels

Oct 23, 2018 20:15 GMT  ·  By

Mozilla officially released today the Firefox 63 "Quantum" web browser on desktop platforms, including Linux, Windows, and Mac, as well on mobile platforms, for Android devices.

Firefox 63 for Android follows on the desktop version, which introduced various performance improvements for Windows and macOS users, WebExtensions improvements for Linux users, better content blocking, search shortcuts for top sites, as well as other changes you can view at a glance in our initial report.

For Android users, the Firefox 63 web browser adds Picture-in-Picture (PiP) support for video streams so you can watch the video in a separate, smaller window while doing something else on the Web or on your device, support for the English Canada (en-CA) and Ligurian (lij) languages, and support for notification channels.

Firefox now targets Android Oreo for new features

With the Firefox 63 release, Mozilla's open-source and cross-platform web browser is now targeting Google's Android 8.0/8.1 Oreo Linux-based mobile operating system for security and performance improvements, as well as support for new features, which means that devices with older Android versions won't get the new stuff in the future.

Some issues remain unresolved in this release, as Mozilla noted the fact that Firefox 63 for Android duplicates the first letter in some Latin keyboards, as well as duplicated glyphs in Korean words. as a workaround to these issues, Mozilla's engineers recommend Android users to use the Google keyboard instead of the standard one.

If you're using the Firefox web browser on your Android device, you'll be able to update to version 63 via Google Play store. The Firefox 63 release has started rolling out to Android users worldwide and should be available to all later this week. Make sure you update as soon as possible for the best Firefox browsing experience.