{"id":366989,"date":"2017-07-21T17:18:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T09:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/07\/21\/firefox-8-ios-new-tab-experience-night-mode\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:18:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T09:18:47","slug":"firefox-8-0-for-ios-brings-new-tab-experience-night-mode-and-qr-code-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/firefox-8-0-for-ios-brings-new-tab-experience-night-mode-and-qr-code-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 8.0 for iOS Brings New Tab Experience, Night Mode, and QR Code Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/20\/firefox-ios-offers-new-improved-browsing-experience-tabs-night-mode-qr-code-reader\/\">released<\/a> Firefox 8.0 for iOS with several notable new features including a Night Mode, a built-in QR code reader, and a redesigned tab experience.<\/p>\n<p>Changes to the web browser&#8217;s tabs mean users now see recently visited sites whenever they open up a new one, combined with highlights from previous web visits. Mozilla says this change in particular will be rolled out to users gradually over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/07\/FF-iOS-8-Blog-Image-v2_icons_orange-800x435.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-576989\"\/><br \/>As for the new Night Mode, this refers to a web page brightness dimming feature for easier reading in dark environments, rather than a darkened interface as such.<\/p>\n<p>Version 8.0 of the browser also introduces Feature Recommendations, which are basically hints and time-saving tips to help users improve their Firefox experience. In addition, it&#8217;s also now possible to send a web page or tab to another Firefox-synced device, across both desktop and mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>Other smaller tweaks to the app include yMail as one of the supported email clients, the password manager now has improved login page detection, and when users copy a link Firefox will now prompt them to open it, rather than having to paste it in manually.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/utilities\/firefox-web-browser\">Firefox 8.0 web browser<\/a> is a free download for iPhone and iPad available on the App Store. [<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/firefox-web-browser\/id989804926?mt=8\">Direct Link<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has released Firefox 8.0 for iOS with several notable new features including a Night Mode, a built-in QR code reader, and a redesigned tab experience. Changes to the web browser&#8217;s tabs mean users now see recently visited sites whenever they open up a new one, combined with highlights from previous web visits. Mozilla says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":366990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-366989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}