Mozilla has updated their Firefox browser for Android to version 17.0 that brings support for ARMv6 phones with at least 800MHZ processor and minimum 512MB RAM. With this update, more than 500 million Android phones including popular phones such as Samsung Galaxy Pro GT-B7510, HTC Status, HTC ChaCha, Samsung Galaxy Ace, Motorola XT531, and the Motorola Fire XT can run the Firefox Browser.
This update also brings hardware and software decoder support for h.264 video for devices running on Android 4.0 and 4.1, Jellybean support for Explore by Touch that lets visually impaired to browse the Web using speech output, sounds and vibrations. Firefox released v17 Beta with ARMv6 support back in September.
New features in Firefox for Android version 17.0
- Support for ARMv6 phones with at least 800MHZ processor and minimum 512MB RAM
- Hardware and software decoder support for h.264 video on Android 4.0 and 4.1
- Initial web app support
- Jellybean support for Explore by Touch
- Profile size reduction and IO improvements due to SafeBrowsing
- Stability fix for Android 4.2
Download Firefox for Android from the Google Play Store for free, if you have not downloaded it yet.