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Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android

Posted by timothy on from the glad-the-browser-wars-continue dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 25 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include Web Audio API support, as well as guest browsing and mixed content blocking on Android. Firefox 25 can be downloaded from Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play. The release notes are here: desktop, mobile."

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  1. I can't remember by i+kan+reed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can't actually recall the last time I was actually enthusiastic about a Firefox release. Nowadays it seems like a chore that rewards my expenditure of effort with features I will never use.

    I mean... I get that mature software doesn't necessarily deliver awe-inspiring features all the time, but in that case, why is it news?

    1. Re:I can't remember by eepok · · Score: 4, Insightful

      A chore? How do YOU install new Firefox releases? All I do is go to Help->About Firefox->Check for Updates->Install.

      It's not exactly spring cleaning.

    2. Re:I can't remember by cOldhandle · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's a chore to find how to re-enable core features that have been removed and disable terrible additions (like the recent giant green arrow animations every single time a file is downloaded)

  2. Re:Unfortunately... by tuffy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's wrong with the HTML5 audio tag for simple playback of static audio files?

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