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Firefox 33 Arrives With OpenH264 Support

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

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 33 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include OpenH264 support as well as the ability to send video content from webpages to a second screen. Firefox 33 for the desktop is available for download now on 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. Full changelogs are available here: desktop and Android."

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  1. Just upgraded, lost cookies by trawg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just upgraded then with that grim sense of foreboding that I now get with Firefox upgrades ("what's going to stop working this time? how is the UI I've been using for many years changed now?")

    I lost all my cookies - upon reload after the upgrade, I noticed I was logged out of a bunch of websites (including anything using Google Accounts and Slashdot). YMMV.

    1. Re:Just upgraded, lost cookies by narcc · · Score: 4, Interesting

      YMMV

      My certainly did. It restarted and reloaded my tabs, including this one, without a hitch.

      that grim sense of foreboding that I now get with Firefox upgrades ("what's going to stop working this time? how is the UI I've been using for many years changed now?")

      Just curious, what has been breaking for you? What UI features have changed in some significant way since Australis? I only ask because I switched back to Firefox from Chrome when Australis hit and have seen nothing but positive improvements with each release.

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    2. Re:Just upgraded, lost cookies by MMC+Monster · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I just like applications to go along with the UI guidelines set by the OS. Chrome breaks that, and so does the new Firefox UI.

      Simple things:
      1 - Menu items visible right under the title bar
      2 - A title bar that can be double-clicked to maximize or restore the screen
      3 - Minimize/Maximize/Restore buttons where the OS says they should be. (Chrome hard-codes them to the right side of the top of the window.)
      4 - If you allow customization of the top of the screen, as Firefox does, why can't I hide the Open Menu widget when I'm showing the menu items otherwise?

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