Firefox for Android: Support for Android 3 is set

Firefox 45 for Android is expected to be the last version, which runs on smartphones and tablets with Android. 3 Mozilla provides a support for the Android version branch, which received its last update in September, 2011.

Mozilla provides for two different Android versions of Firefox on ARM devices: Firefox for Android API Levels 9-10, equivalent to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), and Firefox for the Android API Levels 11 and higher, so Android 3.0 ( Honeycomb) and upwards. Get users of Firefox 45 for Android when using Android 3 a notification that the support for Android is set 3, Firefox 46 is on those systems already no longer run Android. Android 3 has a share of less than 1.6 percent under the Firefox-using Android users.

For Mozilla, the Android prepare 3 versions difficulties because most developers do not test possibilities, leading to errors. Through the non-support of Android 3 of the code is to simple and the installation files are small and especially the developers spend less time fixing errors, which affect only the smallest part of the user, allowing more time for the development of things is that all users get to Good.

Support for Android 2.3 is not affected, Android 2.3 will initially continue to be supported. This justifies Mozilla fact that Android 2.3 will be used still more often by a factor of 20 as Android 3. As expected Firefox Firefox 46 is therefore only Android 2.3 (API level 9-10) and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and higher (from API level 14) support. In September 2014 Mozilla had dropped support for Android 2.2 (Froyo) with Firefox 32nd