Why did the ability to copy and paste text go away with Firefox Beta for Android (v14.0)?
The ability to copy and paste text is seemingly gone with the beta release of Firefox mobile (v 14). Any idea when that might come back? One of the few lacking features holding this browser back from being a competitor with the rest.
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Hi,
Thanks for testing the latest Firefox Beta for Android! The engineering team is working on text selection and copy/paste currently, so I expect it to be one of the first features to show up in a future update. Probably for v15, but I can't say for sure.
Thanks, Michelle
mluna: the android firefox beta 15,still not support copy and paste. this is make so confused. because I need some translate,so the copy and paste is most used function.
any clear plan to add this ability to furture version?
thanks.
Modified by sunose
How do I downgrade back to version, which has copy-paste functionality?
Firefox Beta on Google Play is Firefox 15 which currently supports text-selection.
And how do I synchronize bookmarks between regular FF & β?
Modified by nhurka
Other think is, that I anyway prefer old design. Reason is, that spot on top right corner is too small for my 5" screen.
I found another problem. Both FireFoxes turned out to be incompatible with ZOHO WG1107, android 4.1.5. Is it hardware problem, or FireFoxes don't work with this android?
From what I have found the ZOHO WG1107 tablet from China has a Qualcomm MTK6573 (at 650MHz) which is part of the ARM11 family and are of ARMv6 architecture.
You need a ARMv7 cpu to run the mobile Firefox releases for Android 2.2+
The good news is that Mozilla is looking to try and get ARMv6 mobile Firefox releases in future though the hardware should be of minimum specs recommended for ARMV7 which is 800MHz+ and 512+ MB RAM.
There are third-party ARMv6 builds of mobile Firefox that you can try at your own risk at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25855563 though these may be more for phones.
Or if you do not mind being a Tester, then there are these unstable Nightly builds (of 17.0a1 currently) which gets checkins each day so updates happens pretty much each day as a result. http://nightly.mozilla.org (select the ARMv6 download option)
Modified by James
Thanks for consultation. I don't mind to be a tester. And here is my 1st QA recommendation - CPU requirements need to be declared on FireFoxes' pages of Google Play.
Modified by nhurka
I installed Nightly and tried to report couple bugs in https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topic/mozilla.dev.platforms.mobile/EcmL9mTAsM8[51-75] Does anybody of developers read that discussion? Because last replica before mine happened linger, than month ago.
I do recognize at least one dev involved with Mobile in that thread but he has not posted since May.
Thanks