Firefox includes a new enhancement to private browsing that
allows you to open a new private browsing window without closing or
changing your current browsing session. You can shop for a birthday gift
in a private window with your existing browsing session uninterrupted.
You can also use a private browsing window to check multiple email
accounts simultaneously. We are also proud to announce that Firefox for
Android also supports private browsing on a per tab basis. Firefox for
Android allows you to open a new private browsing tab during your
current browsing session, allowing you to switch between private and
standard tabs within the same browsing session.
Firefox comes with a new Download Manager in the Firefox
toolbar, so you can monitor, view and locate downloaded files without
having to switch to another window. The new Download Manager makes
downloading files with Firefox even easier. Firefox for Android allows
you to customize the shortcuts on the home screen with your favorite or
most frequently visited sites, so they are only a tap away.
Firefox for Android adds support for additional devices
running on a less powerful processor architecture, ARMv6 processors.
This includes popular phones like Samsung Galaxy Next, HTC Aria, HTC
Legend, Samsung Dart, Samsung Galaxy Pop and the Samsung Galaxy Q. In September, Mozilla set to expand support for ARMv6 devices
to bring an awesome Web experience to even more users. We are happy to
say that now we are able to bring a better Web experience to close to 50
million more phones.
For developers, Firefox includes getUserMedia, an important
part of the WebRTC specification. It allows developers to quickly and
easily write code that accesses the user’s camera or microphones.
Firefox also includes a developer toolbox
that provides quick access to developer tools in one convenient window
and gives developers easy-to-remember ways to switch between tools.
Canvas Blend Modes allows developers to define how they want Canvas to
draw over an existing image to create different visual effects.