As part of their biweekly review, LineageOS has now announced a bunch of new features mostly surrounding the new Jelly browser and various other improvements.
Let’s begin with the Jelly browser which has been vastly improved with the new update. Whenever a user downloads content or files from the browser, a notification will pop up and scan for new files be run on the handset.
You can now create a shortcut to directly open an incognito tab. And, links opened in Incognito mode will open only incognito tabs going forward.
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Also, links can now be opened in the dedicated external apps. Let’s say you’ve clicked on a YouTube link, it will now directly open in the YouTube app now.
Users can also enable do-not-track mode manually. Form data, for example, your usernames and passwords for different websites will be saved by default. T
The Jelly browser also supports safe browsing mode now. Folks at LineageOS have also added search suggestions support to the browser. DuckDuckGo is selected by default but you can always change it to Baidu, Bing, Google, Yahoo, or None.
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Apart from the said changes to the Jelly browser, the LineageOS has also received a bunch of other improvements which are as follows:
- The sensitive numbers list has been expanded:
- Brazil, France, Portugal, and the UK have new numbers included
- Sensitive numbers for Greece, Taiwan, and Ukraine have been added
- Country detection for the Czech Republic has been fixed
- A longstanding issue affecting tap-to-pay on several devices has now been fixed
- Media codecs have been updated
- A timeout for the ‘long press power button for torch’ option can now be set. You can find this option in Settings > Buttons > Automatically turn torch off
- The clock app can now set a system profile when an alarm triggers
- The Location QS tile can now be toggled without fully expanding the status bar
- The Battery Saver QS tile has been removed, as this functionality is already available in the main Battery QS tile
- Custom tiles have now been integrated into the framework to allow for deeper integration with the system, and mimic behavior from older versions
- In the next few weeks, keep an eye out for new titles being forward ported
- The updater app now prevents major version upgrades (e.g. 13.0 to 14.1) from being automatically installed, in order to prevent the situation where the user doesn’t notice the change and ends up with incompatible add-ons
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In addition to the above changes, a bunch of new devices (which can be seen below) have been added to the LineageOS 14.1 build support list:
- Nvidia Shield Android TV – foster
- Nvidia Shield Tablet – shieldtablet
- Promoted from 13.0
Readded 14.1 devices
- LG G5 (T-Mobile – h830 and International – h850)
- LG V20 (T-Mobile – h918 and GSM Unlocked – us996)
- LG G Pad X (T-Mobile) – v521
- ZUK Z1 – ham
Check out the source link below to learn about everything that has happened to the LineageOS in the past couple of weeks.
Source: LineageOS
