Firefox for Android
Release Notes

Release Notes tell you what’s new in Firefox. As always, we welcome your feedback. You can also file a bug in Bugzilla or see the system requirements of this release.

29.0.1 Firefox for Android Release

Version 29.0.1, first offered to Release channel users on 9 May 2014

We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!

The ability to set up Firefox Sync by creating a Firefox account (learn more)
Search suggestions available via Bing search plugin when set as default search engine
HTTPS used for Yahoo Searches performed in en-US locale
Added multiple quick share buttons
Better integration for Open Web Apps
Set default home panel
Hide/Show home panels

29.0.1 - 'Send Tab to Devices' menu item restored (bug 1005074)
29.0.1 - Character Encoding selection broken (1003897)
29.0.1 - Address bar input stability fix for Jelly Bean and Kit Kat (987867)
Various security fixes
Improved favicon.ico decoding (748100)

Removed ability to 'send tab' to remote device
Performance improved by replacing throbber with a progress bar
Clicking on a W3C Web Notification will switch to the originating tab

Developer Information
'box-sizing' (dropping the -moz- prefix) implemented (learn more)
Console object available in Web Workers (learn more)
Promises enabled by default (learn more)
SharedWorker enabled by default
<input type="number"> implemented and enabled
Synthetic APKs enabled by default
Color picker widget implemented, access by using <input type="color">
Implemented URLSearchParams from the URL specification (see MDN for details )

Moving Firefox to background while playing a flash video in full screen mode and bring it back to view will freeze the app (see 809055)

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