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For some reason Mozilla blocks it for Android 3 devices but allows it on Android 2 and Android 4. I copied the apk over and it works fine. If anyone on the te

For some reason Mozilla blocks it for Android 3 devices but allows it on Android 2 and Android 4. I copied the apk over and it works fine. If anyone on the team is reading this, I also happen to have a page that renders correctly on the desktop Firefox and Chrome, plus mobile Chrome and the native Android browser, but messes up on Android Firefox (style information looks like it is getting ignored). The page however has some very personal information on it hence not using regular bug reporting.

vibrunazo 14y ago
Worse part is that the older Firefox is the best browser for Android 3. Now it cannot be found in the market anymore because the new version made it incompatible. If they wanted to make it incompatible with 3.0, they should've released a new apk, so the tablet users could still install the old one. Android allows you to have multiple apks for different costumers [1], so no need to make the app unavailable after an upgrade. [1] http://android-developers.blogspot.com.br/2011/07/multiple-apk-support-in-android-market.html http://android-developers.blogspot.com.br/2011/07/multiple-a...
- rogerbinns 14y ago
  It isn't incompatible. I copied the apk over from another device and it works fine. It is something they configured in the app store.
  - bergie 14y ago
    Yep, seems they messed something up. Both the older Firefox, and the Aurora have been running just fine on my ICR Transformer Prime, but now Firefox refuses to update.
    - AaronMT 14y ago
      It is not a mistake. We currently don't support tablets in this release as development did not finish in time for this '1.0' style release. Fortunately, you can test out Nightly (our developer oriented release channel) which has some tablet-optimized changes available for download at http://nightly.mozilla.org http://nightly.mozilla.org [I'm a Mozilla QA Engineer]
      - bergie 14y ago
        Well, I guess this means I'll just stay with Aurora (which I've been using as my main browser for months)
      - rogerbinns 14y ago
        I couldn't care less about UI changes. My tablet and my phone have virtually identical screen resolutions. The important bit is the web page itself. Anyway I worked around it by copying the apk to my tablet.

vibrunazo 14y ago

Worse part is that the older Firefox is the best browser for Android 3. Now it cannot be found in the market anymore because the new version made it incompatible. If they wanted to make it incompatible with 3.0, they should've released a new apk, so the tablet users could still install the old one. Android allows you to have multiple apks for different costumers [1], so no need to make the app unavailable after an upgrade. [1] http://android-developers.blogspot.com.br/2011/07/multiple-apk-support-in-android-market.html http://android-developers.blogspot.com.br/2011/07/multiple-a...

rogerbinns 14y ago
It isn't incompatible. I copied the apk over from another device and it works fine. It is something they configured in the app store.
- bergie 14y ago
  Yep, seems they messed something up. Both the older Firefox, and the Aurora have been running just fine on my ICR Transformer Prime, but now Firefox refuses to update.
  - AaronMT 14y ago
    It is not a mistake. We currently don't support tablets in this release as development did not finish in time for this '1.0' style release. Fortunately, you can test out Nightly (our developer oriented release channel) which has some tablet-optimized changes available for download at http://nightly.mozilla.org http://nightly.mozilla.org [I'm a Mozilla QA Engineer]
    - bergie 14y ago
      Well, I guess this means I'll just stay with Aurora (which I've been using as my main browser for months)
    - rogerbinns 14y ago
      I couldn't care less about UI changes. My tablet and my phone have virtually identical screen resolutions. The important bit is the web page itself. Anyway I worked around it by copying the apk to my tablet.