Has Firefox for Android not been optimized for 4.3?

After upgrading my Nexus 10 to 4.3 on Monday, everything works fine except for Firefox. I have both 22.0 and Beta installed, and the problems are identical in both. Keyboard lag, characters not showing up though I've typed them in the search/address bar, blank white screens although it shows the page has finished loading, the previous page still showing even though the address bar shows a new page has supposedly loaded, lousy scrolling. Chrome browser works perfectly, such as it is. I've rebooted several times, and no joy. I haven't uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox, but I'm not sure that would do any good. I'm going to try that next, but I'm wondering if there is a known problem with Firefox for Android not yet being optimized for 4.3.

Your statement is perfect, I had a user yesterday with problems on his/her Nexus 10 and it was fixed with the superbeta (Nighty) version of Firefox for android, which you can download from.
* http://nightly.mozilla.org/
Thank you.

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]'''Michelle -
I wonder if you realize that the quality of what you did is not equalled in any computer/techical manual that I have read since I had my first computer in the late 80's. Despite all the fancy numbers about how many jillion of computers are out there, I often wonder how many are like 2 or 3 at friends' homes, unused because they have no one to teach them, no manuals that are methodical enough, techie word free, to refer to.
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