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Firefox 22 Released, Boosts 3-D Gaming and Video Calls

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

Today Mozilla announced the launch of Firefox 22 for desktops and Android devices. For the desktop version, WebRTC, the open source browser-based communications API, is now enabled by default. "This technology makes it possible to place and receive video calls from a mobile or desktop browser or share live video, files and images with friends and family." Firefox 22 also has support for the asm.js subset of JavaScript, which allows for big performance boosts on graphically complex applications in the browser. (We saw a demonstration of this a while back.) Other new features include display scaling options for making text bigger on high-res displays, better WebGL rendering performance, word wrapping for text files displayed in the browser, and the ability to change the playback rate of HTML5 audio and video. The new Android version features include tablet UI support for smaller tablets, and a fix for scrolling in nested frames.

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  1. Boosts 3-D Gaming and Video Calls by nitehawk214 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is there something named Firefox that isn't a browser but uses the same silly exponentially increasing versioning scheme?

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  2. Does it stop crap code ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    setTimeout(function(){window.locationmanageQueryStringParam('source','autorefresh');}, 600000);

    this bit of code is a nightmare on FF mobile, iam trying to read the comments and bam iam looking at the slashdot homepage ? WTF ? i didnt press back

    sort it out slashdot, your code needs much more work and if you cared about the user you would NEVER reload a page the user didnt request.

  3. I want a car, no I want a plane... by sinij · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know all use cases, but I personally use Firefox to browse. Why do I want 3D gaming and video conferencing integrated into it? What next, preparing taxes?

    1. Re:I want a car, no I want a plane... by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Because the web is increasingly an application delivery platform, and modern web standards reflect that. Many people may not like it particularly, but that's what it is.

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    2. Re:I want a car, no I want a plane... by UltraZelda64 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Adding all this garbage is just setting the browser up to be like IE6 before it... a huge, bloated, buggy, major security risk. Most if not all of those things are already true to some extent, but at this rate it's only going to get worse. Once upon a time, a web browser just fetched web pages... now it's making it braindead easy to run unheard of amounts of potentially untrusted code. Beyore, you would have to download an executable in most cases or even buy a program at a store... now, all you have to do is browse a few web pages.

  4. Re:Are there still memory leaks? by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unfortunately, memory leaks are usually blamed on the browser, not on a plug-in, regardless of the cause.

    Give me an easy way to trace which plug-in it is.
    Surely Mozilla could do that?
    They already tell me which plug-ins take a long time to load, why not some basic memory management?

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