{"id":47419,"date":"2013-08-12T21:20:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T19:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=47419"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:15:19","slug":"firefox-for-android-beta-brings-reader-improvements-nfc-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/firefox-for-android-beta-brings-reader-improvements-nfc-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox for Android Beta brings Reader improvements, NFC sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla may have just launched <a title=\"Firefox 23 arrives with new logo, share button\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/firefox-23-arrives-with-new-logo-share-button\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox 23<\/a> for the desktop but it&#8217;s not slowing down development. The company has released a new beta for their Firefox browser on <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>, which brings improved Reader functionality and NFC (Near Field Communication) sharing of links to other NFC enabled Android phones.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox for Android&#8217;s Reading List feature has gotten an overhaul. Reader and Reading List allow users to strip away extraneous elements of a webpage to form an easy to read page, much like <a title=\"Pocket\" href=\"http:\/\/pocket.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pocket<\/a> or <a title=\"Instapaper\" href=\"http:\/\/instapaper.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instapaper<\/a>. There&#8217;s now an option to switch between Serif and San-serif fonts, toggle between a &#8220;light&#8221; and &#8220;dark&#8221; mode, as well as turning the URL bar orange to denote the activated feature.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also support for <a title=\"Firefox 22 out now, brings upgraded video player and other performance enhancements\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/firefox-22-out-now\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WebRTC<\/a>, which allows real-time communication within the browser for things like video calls and file sharing.<\/p>\n<p>For the full changelog, check out the source link below.<\/p>\n<p>Download <a title=\"Firefox for Android Beta\" href=\"http:\/\/firefox-beta.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Firefox for Android Beta<\/strong><\/a> to see the changes for yourself.<\/p>\n<h4>Source: <a title=\"Mozilla\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2013\/08\/09\/new-features-and-improvements-for-firefox-beta-ready-for-download-and-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mozilla<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla may have just launched Firefox 23 for the desktop but it&#8217;s not slowing down development. The company has released a new beta for their Firefox browser on Android, which brings improved Reader functionality and NFC (Near Field Communication) sharing of links to other NFC enabled Android phones. Firefox for Android&#8217;s Reading List feature has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/firefox-for-android-beta-brings-reader-improvements-nfc-sharing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox for Android Beta brings Reader improvements, NFC sharing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":47425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-47419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332444,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47419\/revisions\/332444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47419"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=47419"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=47419"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=47419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}