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Firefox 35 Arrives With MP4 Playback On Mac, Android Download Manager Support

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

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.

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  1. MORE SHIT??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fuck off Mozilla, we do NOT want this cesspool of added crap. Light, fast and bulletproof is what is wanted, not this repulsive nonsense.

    1. Re:MORE SHIT??? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Fuck off Mozilla, we do NOT want this cesspool of added crap.

      Then don't use it. Installing Firefox is optional, you know. Or do you feel Mozilla should be beholden to you in return for all those thousands of dollars you never quite got around to donating?

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    2. Re: MORE SHIT??? by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "Hey, assholes! Stop trying to make some money! You should just be happy that a few people donate to you at all, rather than trying to pay your employees, compete with the three biggest tech firms on earth, and do all those other initiatives that should obviously cost nothing!

      Why is it necessary for Mozilla to have paid employees, let alone an actual corporate structure?
      Why does Mozilla need to "compete" with Google. Mozilla is a non-profit. What's the endgame here?
      Why can't they just write their software for people who want it and let people use Chrome who want to use Chrome.

      There's lots of open-source software projects out there that continue to run based solely on the contributions of their developers.
      Given the choice between "Commercial Mozilla" trying to compete with Chrome, and a slower changing, community run affair, I'll take the latter.

  2. Re:Breaks my Adobe Reader plugin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    yeah, the guy who installed adobe reader :-P

  3. Re:owners of older machines, behold... by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's still less memory hungry than Chrome.

  4. Re:Breaks my Adobe Reader plugin by Alan+Shutko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shame that Firefox does not have a good embedded PDF reader.

  5. Re:Breaks my Adobe Reader plugin by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If your OS can't handle a PDF file natively, it's time to change your OS.

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