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Firefox 34 Arrives With Video Chat, Yahoo Search As Default

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

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 34 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Major additions to the browser include a built-in video chat feature, a revamped search bar, and tab mirroring from Android to Chromecast. This release also makes Yahoo Search the default in North America, in place of Google. Full changelogs: desktop and Android."

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  1. Kiss my hairy Pale Moon, Mozilla! by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Pale Moon" is one possible alternative fork. Anybody want to recommend others?

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  2. Re:Recommendation for a good browser? by Osgeld · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.seamonkey-project.o...

  3. Re:Recommendation for a good browser? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Chromium. It is Chrome, but missing all the Google spyware. Add on the extensions: Adblock Plus (most viruses come in through ads, also they're annoying), Disconnect (not ghostery - they help advertisers), HTTPS Everywhere (can't be too careful), ScriptSafe (NoScript in spirit on Chrome). Grab the 32-bit (the 64-bit seems unstable) version from woolyss, just keep in mind these are dev builds so expect bugs from time to time, and expect to have to go back to an older version sometimes so keep around your older installers: http://chromium.woolyss.com/

  4. V34.0.5? by antdude · · Score: 1, Informative

    Hello.

    I just upgraded Firefox v33.1.1 to v34.0 on my office's Mac mini with its updated Mac OS X 10.9.5. However, I am confused if this is v34.0.5 or not in its About screen. About screen says v34.0. Both https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... and https://download.mozilla.org/?... say v34.0.5. How do I know if my installed one is b5?

    Thank you in advance.

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  5. Re:Unwanted video on top of Australis mess? I'm ou by norite · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think he's referring to that ice cream sandwich (That's what I call it) icon that is the settings...the three horizontal lines thing that the UX retards have replaced the wrench or gear icon with.

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  6. Re:video chat by mod+prime · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's both.

    You can call anybody on the compatible browsers, but they can't call you unless they have Firefox 34.

  7. Re:video chat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is indeed WebRTC via TokBox [tokbox.com]. TokBox provides a nice wrapper over the core technology and some signaling services (the signaling portion of the connection is intentionally left out of the WebRTC spec).

    Firefox is NOT the first browser to support WebRTC. Chrome has supported it for some time first in Beta now in release, same with Firefox. This is just a slick way to generate a link that can be sent to another Firefox or Chrome user to instantly start a video chat.

    http://www.webrtc.org