Mozilla Offers Sneak Peek during New Tricks in Firefox for Android
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The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has, so far, been brief on jaw-dropping new Android hardware. But fear not Android fans, while new inclination competence still be usually over a horizon, Mozilla has a hide look during a few new tricks entrance shortly to Firefox for Android.
To get a new year started Mozilla has expelled Firefox 18 for Android, that we can squeeze from a Google Play Store.
This recover brings hunt idea to Firefox for Android, along with new phishing and malware protection. Once we opt-in to a new hunt suggestions, Firefox will — most like Google’s hunt page — start suggesting hunt terms as we type, creation it faster to find what you’re after.
Like a desktop cousin, Firefox for Android will also now advise we whenever we revisit a site that competence be used for malware or phishing to strengthen users from antagonistic websites.
While Firefox 18 is a acquire ascent for Android users, Mozilla has most some-more entrance soon. The association recently posted a hide peek during what’s in store for Firefox for Android in 2013.
The highlights embody support for Private Browsing mode in a Android incarnation of Firefox. Private Browsing is removing an renovate on a desktop side as well, with Firefox 20 approaching to embody a proceed to open Private Browsing tabs right alongside your normal tabs.
Presumably a new proceed to Private Browsing will also boat with Firefox for Android, rather than a current, some-more unwieldy proceed of browsing privately, that requires stealing your stream windows and opening an wholly new set of private windows.
Private Browsing is mostly discharged as “porn mode“, though in law there are copiousness of uses over simply gripping your cookies and browsing story private. Think coexisting logins, debugging with a “clean” revisit to a site and anything else that requires apart cookies or sessions.
Next adult on a Firefox for Android bulletin is some-more device and denunciation support. Unfortunately a Mozilla blog doesn’t contend that models competence be combined to a list of inclination Firefox for Android supports, observant usually that Mozilla is “bringing support for some-more inclination all a time.”
The third hide look Mozilla is charity means some-more customization for Firefox on mobile — themes and some-more start page options will be entrance soon.
Naturally these 3 things aren’t a usually changes due for Firefox for Android in 2013, though hopefully, now that a under-the-hood emigration to local Android collection is done, Mozilla can concentration a courtesy on new facilities and speed improvements.