Firefox Preview 5.2 er tilgjengeleg for Android

For Android platform publisert release of the experimental browser Firefox Preview 5.2, utviklet under kodenavnet Fenix som en erstatning for Firefox-utgaven for Android. Den vil snart bli publisert i katalogen Google Play (for operation, Android 5 or later is required). Additionally, starting with version Firefox 77, the regular Firefox now includes tilgjengelig i WSL-lageret på Microsoft Store builds based on Firefox Preview 5.x (Firefox 77 Beta for Android is identical to Firefox Preview 5.1).

Firefox Preview bruker motoren GeckoView, bygget på teknologiene fra Firefox Quantum, og et sett med biblioteker Mozilla Android Components, som allerede brukes til å bygge nettlesere Firefox Focus og Firefox Lite. GeckoView er en variant av Gecko-motoren, utformet som et eget bibliotek, som kan oppdateres uavhengig, og Android Components inkluderer biblioteker med typiske komponenter som muliggjør funksjoner som faner, automatisk fullføring av tekstinnputt, søkeforslag og andre muligheter i nettleseren.

Viktige endringer:

• A new popup has been introduced for switching between open tabs (Tab Tray). Instead of displaying open tabs on the basic home screen, the new release adds a button with an indicator of the number of open tabs, which, when pressed, displays a separate list of tabs opened in both normal and private modes. The home page retains the list of frequently used sites and the content of collections that group information about previously opened sites. Tabs can be closed with a swipe to the right, and a button to undo the action appears at the bottom after closing a tab.
  
• Simplified aktivering av voice search, allowing keyword input using speech recognition technology.
  
• Improvements made for people with disabilities.
• A visible button has been added to the address bar to open the page in reader mode (previously, reader mode was accessed through the menu and it was not clear if it was supported for the current site).
• Aktivert dynamic display of the bottom navigation bar.
• In the tab switching interface er lagt til quick access to the context menu.
  
• Lagt til the ability to initiate synchronization of bookmark lists and history using the ‘swipe down’ gesture.

I tillegg kan det nevnes tilkomsten in nightly builds of Firefox, on which the release of Firefox 79 will be based, the pages ‘about:preferences#experimental’ with an interface to enable experimental features, similar to about:flags in Chrome. To enable the new interface in about:config, an option ‘browser.preferences.experimental’ is provided.

Kilde: opennet.ru