Good news, everyone! Our first step to downloadable content has been enabled in Nightly: This means we now stopped to ship fonts[1] in the APK and instead download them at runtime (Bug 1194338 [2]).
With that we reduced the size of the APK by roughly 6.4% (~ 2.7MB) [3]. Without having the fonts downloaded (yet) our users can still browse websites but they may look less nice. And in fact, as things go, a bug caused just that to happen in Nightly (We don't download any fonts): bug 1249354 [4]. So if websites are currently looking a bit weird on Nightly then that's because of that. The bug should be resolved soon and after that let me know if you see any new weird issues related to (wrong) fonts. :) Our plans for the future: * Right now we ship the list of fonts and the location to download with the application. We want to synchronize this catalog of content from a Kinto instance: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1201059 * We want to download hyphenation dictionaries at runtime too: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095719 * Eventually we might even want to download (some) localization files at runtime: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945123 Best, Sebastian [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2rrFiN1Jw [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1194338 [3] https://twitter.com/Anti_Hype/status/699905577196134400 [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1249354
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