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Firefox 28 Arrives With VP9 Video Decoding, HTML5 Volume Controls

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

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 28 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include VP9 video decoding, Web notifications on OS X, and volume controls for HTML5 video and audio. Firefox 28 has been released over on Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. The full release notes are available. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play (Android release notes)." Mozilla also announced tools to bring the Unity game engine to WebGL and asm.js.

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  1. Browsers are too heavy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We have come full circle. The rationale for 'puting x in the browser' is so that I wouldn't need x software for y platform...just a browser.

    Nowadays browsers have so much functionality built-in they weigh a ton[in memory]. I don't want all that shit. Just show me the static content. Keep the spinning rims for the simpletons.

    TLDR; I long for the days when all my browser could do display static content. All I ever wanted was standardized media formats[without DRM]

    1. Re:Browsers are too heavy by etash · · Score: 5, Insightful

      We have come full circle. The rationale for 'putting x in the pc' so that i wouldn't need to write code for y platform...just a pc nowadays pcs have so much functionaly built-in they weigh a ton. I don't want all that shit, just show me a 320x240 screen with asci chars. Keep the UI and mice and soundcards and network cards for the simpletons. TLDR; I long for the days when all my computer could do was display characters on a black and white screen. All I ever wanted was to show off my idiocy on slashdot.

  2. Re:150 tabs? by DMUTPeregrine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have tons of tabs open, because bookmarks suck. EG if I'm working on a project with a new framework I might need to reference 3-4 APIs, and 5 classes in each, and 2-3 methods per class in a given hour or two. I want a tab for each method, with a tree of the parent classes and APIs. Tree-Style tabs lets me have that, but Firefox's bookmarks don't. So I leave tabs open. That results in 50-60 tabs or so. Sure, I close the tab group when the project is done, and subsets when I'm done with them, and use different windows to separate different projects/activities, but it results in lots of tabs. "Normal" people use tabs for current pages, I like to have both the current pages and a herarchical history of how I got to those pages. I also open all links in tabs. Tab hierarchies provide a combined history (with list of what lead where,) bookmarks, and tabs, all in one convenient interface. If bookmarks supported this nicely it would be great, but they don't.

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    Not a sentence!
  3. Re:150 tabs? by sexconker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have tons of tabs open, because bookmarks suck. EG if I'm working on a project with a new framework I might need to reference 3-4 APIs, and 5 classes in each, and 2-3 methods per class in a given hour or two. I want a tab for each method, with a tree of the parent classes and APIs. Tree-Style tabs lets me have that, but Firefox's bookmarks don't. So I leave tabs open. That results in 50-60 tabs or so. Sure, I close the tab group when the project is done, and subsets when I'm done with them, and use different windows to separate different projects/activities, but it results in lots of tabs. "Normal" people use tabs for current pages, I like to have both the current pages and a herarchical history of how I got to those pages. I also open all links in tabs. Tab hierarchies provide a combined history (with list of what lead where,) bookmarks, and tabs, all in one convenient interface. If bookmarks supported this nicely it would be great, but they don't.

    That's a terrible way to work. Here's how to do it.

    1: Look up what you need.
    2: Do what you need.
    3: Close the tab when you're done with it.

    The URL bar will automatically populate shit. Need to look up a method or class again? Type that shit in and your browser will autocomplete that shit from history. But you'd rather paw through a hierarchical list of 60 tabs. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. You might as well just crawl the docs and index every link. That's not how the modern internet works. It's akin to putting one of those Post-It flags on the front of a dictionary, then one on the first page for the letter D, then another on the 2nd to last page for D, then another on that same page on the word "dumbass". You're literally rebuilding an index that already exists for no damned reason.

  4. Re:They can't imagine a different life than their by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    This spam again? Don't you have anything better to do with your time than spew this nonsense every time Firefox is discussed? Does Pale Moon really need supporters like you, who have nothing to offer beyond unsubstantiated personal attacks, and an excess of bile toward the product that Pale Moon wouldn't even exist without? I don't know what scares me more, the fact that you've convinced yourself of this tripe or that you have supporters who blindly upvote you.