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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. Re:Automatically? by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not for those of us running Gentoo linux.

    Then you're in luck! You get to do it the hard way, which should please you since you're using Gentoo.

    --
    Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
  2. Re:Automatically? by danomac · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gentoo users probably get more entertainment watching the game compile rather than actually playing the game. Go figure.

  3. 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.

  4. Re:I'm still alive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Are you on Windows 7 with IE 10 installed and broken R600 graphics drivers?

    FTFO.

    It boggles my mind that they released the browser with this bug unresolved.

    You can only resolve bugs in your code. That's a bug in ATI's drivers, what they can do is to work around the bug, which they did.