The highlight of the new Android version is a guest browsing mode that allows the user to share his or her phone or tablet with a friend and family without having to worry about them looking at the browsing history, bookmarks, passwords or other data. Also new on Android is support for Firefox’s mixed content blocking, the organization’s technology for blocking attacks and eavesdroppers on HTTPS pages, as well as the ability to take any image in the browser and turn it into a wallpaper or add it as a photo to a contact. This version also introduces a number of new features for developers, including support for some new CSS3 features and the API Contacts.
On all platforms, Firefox now supports the Web Audio API, which allows developers to manipulate audio in the browser in ways that were not previously possible. In today’s announcement, Mozilla notes that this technology will be extremely useful for developers who want to write browser-based games. It offers support for positional audio, as well as for effects like reverb.
The Web Audio API is a W3C standard, but different browser vendors implement these standards in different ways. To help developers make sure their apps work in all browsers, Mozilla published a guide explaining how its version is different from those of its competitors.
