Mozilla has rolled out a new beta of Firefox for Android that adds support for older-generation devices, and brings per-tab private browsing.

Firefox 18 is expected to be officially released anytime now. However, as always, it has been uploaded to the FTP servers in advance.

Mozilla has revealed some of the new features in store for Firefox for Android in 2013. They include private browsing, improved customizability, and enhanced compatibility.

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A new experimental build of Firefox showcases per-window private browsing support.

The latest release of Firefox for Android adds support for all Android devices powered by an ARM v6 processor with a minimum of 512MB RAM.

Firefox 16.01 fixes a security and privacy issue that lead to the original release being pulled by Mozilla.

Mozilla just released version 16 of the Firefox web browser, and as always, it has arrived with a slew of attractive changes.

Over the last 24 hours or so, quite a lot of popular Android apps have received some major updates. This includes Plume for Android, Firefox for Android tablets and lastly, ASTRO, a popular file manager app.

Mozilla is introducing support for the Opus audio format, which is being proposed as an alternative to AAC and Ogg audio formats that are currently the most commonly used in <audio> tags.

Two of the major browsers including Firefox and Google Chrome support the SPDY/3 protocol. While the SPDY/3 protocol is restricted to Sandbox builds of Firefox. Google Chrome dev and canary build versions also support SPDY/3 through a switch in about:flags.

With BrowserID, you are in control of your entire personal information and online behavioral data. Moreover, BrowserID will allow pseudonyms and multiple identities too.

With every click of the mouse and every touch of the screen, we are like Hansel and Gretel leaving breadcrumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods. Collusion for Firefox sheds light on how personal data is tracked across website.

Most of these performance improvements can be attributed to a new responsive UI, which is using the Android native UI instead of the XUL based UI, which Mozilla was developing earlier.

Firefox 13 will include a new troubleshooting feature that will allow users to reset Firefox to its default state while retaining personal data like saved passwords and bookmarks.