For Android platform experimental browser release , codenamed Fenix as a replacement for Firefox for Android. In the near future the issue will be published in the catalog (requires Android 5 or later to work). Also, starting with Firefox 77 as a beta version of regular Firefox now builds based on Firefox Preview 5.x (Firefox 77 Beta for Android is identical to Firefox Preview 5.1).
Firefox Preview GeckoView engine built on Firefox Quantum technologies and a set of libraries , which are already used to build browsers и . GeckoView is a variant of the Gecko engine that is packaged as a standalone library that can be updated independently, while Android Components includes libraries with generic components that provide tabs, input completion, search suggestions, and other browser features.
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- A new pop-up block for switching between open tabs has been proposed (). Instead of showing open tabs on the basic home screen, the new release has added a button with an indicator of the number of open tabs, which, when clicked, shows a separate list of tabs open in normal and private modes. The home page retains a list of frequently used sites and the contents of collections that group information about previously opened sites. Closing tabs is done by sliding to the right, after closing the tab, a button appears at the bottom to cancel the action.
- Simplified voice search, which allows you to enter search keys using a speech recognition engine.
- Improvements have been made for people with disabilities.
- A visible button has been added to the address bar to open the page in the reader mode (previously, the reader mode was called from the menu and it was not visible whether it is supported for the current site).
- dynamic display of the bottom navigation bar.
- To the tab switching interface quick access to the context menu.
- the ability to initiate synchronization of bookmark lists and history using the “shift down” gesture.
Additionally, it can be noted in the nightly builds of Firefox that will be used for the Firefox 79 release, "about:preferences#experimental" pages with an interface for enabling experimental features, similar to about:flags in Chrome. To enable the new interface, about:config provides the "browser.preferences.experimental" option.
Source: opennet.ru