{"id":128,"date":"2013-08-08T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/?p=128"},"modified":"2013-08-08T07:07:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T15:07:16","slug":"whats-happening-with-firefox-for-android-support-august-8-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/2013\/08\/08\/whats-happening-with-firefox-for-android-support-august-8-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s happening with Firefox for Android Support August 8, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s going on this week in Firefox for Android Support<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Michael has an awesome post every week about what&#8217;s happening overall in SUMO for desktop, Android and Firefox OS. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2013\/08\/05\/whats-up-with-sumo-aug-5\/\">Check out the August 5th, 2013 edition of what&#8217;s happening in SUMO<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current release<\/strong> is Firefox 23 for Android which was released last Tuesday August 6, 2013. Great release so far! There are some <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/firefox-issues-nexus-10-and-android-43\">Android 4.3 issues<\/a>\u00a0 (Google released Android 4.3 roughly a week ago!) which so far aren&#8217;t too major.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming releases:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Firefox 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"magicdomid76\">\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s research time! Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/forums\/knowledge-base-articles\/709496#post-53612\">research thread for Firefox 24<\/a> and if we have missed a feature please add it to the thread. Thanks to yalam96, nyselvey, and Waka_Flocka_Flame for helping out with Android research so far.<\/li>\n<li>Firefox 24 beta 1\u00a0 comes out tomorrow Friday August 9, 2013 and there is a permissions bump (see <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/forums\/knowledge-base-articles\/709496#post-53612\">research\u00a0 thread<\/a>) so we&#8217;d like to finish that article today. It should be easy; it currently looks like we only have to document two new permissions: &#8220;record audio&#8221; and &#8220;control Near Field Communication.&#8221;. Let&#8217;s finish today\u00a0 Thursday 8 August 2013. Interested? Edit the following article and ping roland via email (rtanglao or IRC (rolandtanglao in #sumo)\n<div id=\"magicdomid63\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/how-firefox-android-use-permissions-it-requests\">https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/how-firefox-android-use-permissions-it-requests<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Or help us with existing articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy edit list (and some harder \ud83d\ude42 ones too) <a href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/ff-android-kb-changes\">https:\/\/etherpad.mozilla.org\/ff-android-kb-changes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Miscellaneous<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roland on vacation August 12-14 (Tyler will cover); Roland working on Eastern Time July 24 &#8211; August 9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s going on this week in Firefox for Android Support [Michael has an awesome post every week about what&#8217;s happening overall in SUMO for desktop, Android and Firefox OS. Check out the August 5th, 2013 edition of what&#8217;s happening in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/2013\/08\/08\/whats-happening-with-firefox-for-android-support-august-8-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34568,34748,8807,8806,4521,186,303],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}