{"id":87493,"date":"2013-09-25T08:06:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T06:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=87493"},"modified":"2013-09-25T09:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T07:22:49","slug":"firefox-24-for-pc-and-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87493-firefox-24-for-pc-and-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 24 for PC and Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newest version of the <a title=\"Firefox\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/220755-Firefox\">Firefox<\/a> browser, Firefox 24, is now available for computers and <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> devices, bringing a range of new features, especially for mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>For example there&#8217;s night mode which reverses the usual black text on a white screen mode, making it easier to read in low light conditions.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the ability to share open tabs between <a title=\"NFC\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384133-NFC-Near-Field-Communications\">NFC<\/a>-enabled phones and there&#8217;s support for WebRTC which will allow browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat and peer-to-peer file sharing without the need for additional plug-ins.<\/p>\n<p>Both the desktop and mobile versions also plug a number of security vulnerabilities, developer <a title=\"Mozilla\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342687-Mozilla-Foundation\">Mozilla<\/a> says.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More on browsers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Browser wars: Chrome vs Firefox vs IE vs Safari\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/85357-browser-wars-chrome-vs-firefox-vs-ie-vs-safari.html\"><strong>Browser wars: Chrome vs Firefox vs IE vs Safari<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mobile browser war: Apple vs Android vs Microsoft vs Opera\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/77702-mobile-browser-war-apple-vs-android-vs-microsoft-vs-opera.html\"><strong>Mobile browser war: Apple vs Android vs Microsoft vs Opera<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/66978-mobile-browser-wars-in-2012.html\"><strong>Mobile browser wars in 2012<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest version of the Firefox browser, Firefox 24, is now available for computers and Android devices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":78835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,981],"class_list":["post-87493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87515,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87493\/revisions\/87515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}