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Firefox 35 Arrives With MP4 Playback On Mac, Android Download Manager Support
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 35 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Major additions to the browser include room-based Firefox Hello conversations, H.264 (MP4 files) playback on OS X, and integration with the Android download manager. Mozilla has opened up the Firefox Marketplace for the desktop, currently in beta. While Firefox Marketplace is already available on Firefox OS and Firefox for Android, the company is now asking users to help test apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Full changelogs: desktop and Android.
Like the 20 previous times you posted this?
I found this today I had marked it apparently.
Here is the kraken benchmark results from v6
http://krakenbenchmark.mozilla.org/kraken-1.1/results.html?%7B%22v%22:%20%22kraken-1.1%22,%20%22ai-astar%22:%5B852,857,858,861,858,854,865,859,866,855%5D,%22audio-beat-detection%22:%5B458,480,458,456,458,458,483,457,457,484%5D,%22audio-dft%22:%5B435,441,434,431,427,701,425,431,439,431%5D,%22audio-fft%22:%5B353,352,359,357,357,357,357,372,354,354%5D,%22audio-oscillator%22:%5B621,620,620,621,621,624,621,619,626,621%5D,%22imaging-gaussian-blur%22:%5B726,728,740,735,737,740,734,738,737,735%5D,%22imaging-darkroom%22:%5B307,310,299,302,303,302,304,301,303,306%5D,%22imaging-desaturate%22:%5B699,714,709,719,711,712,709,702,706,701%5D,%22json-parse-financial%22:%5B136,136,135,135,136,135,134,135,136,135%5D,%22json-stringify-tinderbox%22:%5B100,101,100,102,99,100,100,101,101,101%5D,%22stanford-crypto-aes%22:%5B241,240,238,240,239,240,240,240,238,207%5D,%22stanford-crypto-ccm%22:%5B170,168,169,176,177,168,178,166,177,181%5D,%22stanford-crypto-pbkdf2%22:%5B343,330,332,338,334,334,333,331,335,335%5D,%22stanford-crypto-sha256-iterative%22:%5B131,133,135,133,135,133,131,133,134,133%5D%7D
Today's v35
http://krakenbenchmark.mozilla.org/kraken-1.1/results.html?{%22v%22:%20%22kraken-1.1%22,%20%22ai-astar%22:%5B83,86,82,93,86,92,86,82,90,87%5D,%22audio-beat-detection%22:%5B106,107,120,113,110,108,122,106,110,111%5D,%22audio-dft%22:%5B139,138,152,145,144,143,158,142,144,148%5D,%22audio-fft%22:%5B63,62,75,65,63,63,68,66,65,66%5D,%22audio-oscillator%22:%5B77,78,81,81,78,80,75,80,79,81%5D,%22imaging-gaussian-blur%22:%5B101,101,101,106,104,103,108,106,104,105%5D,%22imaging-darkroom%22:%5B108,115,119,121,112,119,126,112,110,118%5D,%22imaging-desaturate%22:%5B88,89,83,85,86,83,85,84,85,94%5D,%22json-parse-financial%22:%5B68,71,92,81,82,73,79,90,79,98%5D,%22json-stringify-tinderbox%22:%5B57,55,58,57,56,58,57,58,57,54%5D,%22stanford-crypto-aes%22:%5B66,70,65,66,66,67,65,68,65,206%5D,%22stanford-crypto-ccm%22:%5B89,96,88,87,87,88,85,93,89,91%5D,%22stanford-crypto-pbkdf2%22:%5B140,143,148,136,150,134,140,148,140,138%5D,%22stanford-crypto-sha256-iterative%22:%5B119,67,70,70,67,63,186,68,59,61%5D}
That is nearly a 9x speedup in those years. On the same hardware. I think they may actually be working on it...
You should give PaleMoon a try. Firefox without all the GUI madness of the last few years.
Also, I noticed this quote from the Firefox Hello page:
"Recently, we introduced Firefox Hello, the first global communications system built directly into a browser to help make things easier."
Have they never heard of Virtual Places? It was a browser with built-in chat rooms for each web page. Every web page you visited put you in a chat with everyone else on that page. There were avatars you moved around on the page, and "gestures" and, whatever. This was 1994 or so...
Couldn't agree more. And I also want the classical UI back, you know the one that was actually usable.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Just press F10 to get the old menus back.
You shouldn't put all the blame on Mozilla. HTML5, the one standard to rule them all, is the real issue here. HTML5 essentially is the specification for an operating system over the web. It's a monstrosity that never should have been born.
Mozilla still gets the blame for the constant UI changes. But the real demon is HTML5.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."