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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.
Fuck off Mozilla, we do NOT want this cesspool of added crap. Light, fast and bulletproof is what is wanted, not this repulsive nonsense.
Now FF thinks it has both version 10 and version 11.
Someone messed up bad. Real bad.
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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...
...that Firefox is still my favorite browser. I really don't care for any of the rest, but my gods, what kinds of drugs are they doing over at the Mozilla compound?
Ignorance killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.
It's still less memory hungry than Chrome.
I guess it has the same one as the last version, so no.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
First I started with Palemoon because the interface wasn't that abortion they call Australis. But Palemoon seemed to be getting slower so I gave Chrome a try and liked it. Not without a few essential addons like Adblock, Flashblock, and a home button. We're at a crossroads right now like when Netscape 4 came out and IE really improved.
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Isn't there a version of Firefox that simply supports, you know, Web Browsing?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
...to "Yahoo!". Easy to change back, though. :)
Please name a major browser vendor that has less money than Firefox. Mozilla is the only one of the "big four" browser vendors that isn't a huge multi-national corporation.
"Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"
That isn't new this time around. It was added a few versions back.
"Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"
And I'd like to follow up by asking the Firefox developers if they can add something like a "Features" tab under (perhaps) "Tools->Add-ons" to allow users to easily en/disable the various (non web-browsing) Firefox features, like WebIDE, WebRTC, Marketplace, Social, Taskbar Lists, Geo, Beacon, UI Tour, yada, yada, yada... -- so I don't have to scan through "about:config" looking for new things ending in ".enabled" (and the like) to set to "false" with every new Firefox release. Thank you in advance.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I've been updating FF and successfully restoring my previous session for years.
Now sessions don't even work with a brand new, fresh profile.
Epic FAIL.
the last time they put out a release that actually had something that I used.
I learned that Microsoft PAYS people to use Bing search! But people only get paid if they do Bing searches directly, not through Yahoo.
I don't understand how that works. Can someone make a software robot to do searches and visit ads, and then get paid? Why have a job when your computer can make money unaided?
Microsoft pays Yahoo, Yahoo then paid Mozilla Foundation to sneakily make Bing the default search engine, and not Google search, realizing that most people don't have the technical ability to know why their search results have begun to be less relevant.
So:
1) To get people to use its search engine, Microsoft feels that it is necessary to pay. That is an acknowledgement that Microsoft's Bing search is not of sufficient quality to do well without payment.
2) 31% of Yahoo's revenue comes from Microsoft paying it to use Bing.
3) That, basically, is an ad campaign to sell other browsers. As mentioned above, Yahoo paid Mozilla Foundation to change the search configuration of Firefox, without notice. I imagine that most people won't know what went wrong or how to re-configure Firefox. When people have problems with Firefox, they may switch to another browser, like Google's Chrome, or Pale Moon's 64-bit version of Firefox.
4) People may think they are using Yahoo search, but there is no such thing as "Yahoo search". Actually, without being notified, Yahoo customers are using Microsoft Bing search, and their search information is being given to Microsoft.
5) Microsoft pays Yahoo to use Bing. Yahoo pays Firefox to use Bing. Eventually, when the news about why Bing use is increasing is more widely known, people who don't feel comfortable with that sneaky behavior may switch to Google Chrome. In effect, Microsoft is paying for a powerful ad campaign to get people to switch to another browser.
6) Those who want to be paid by Microsoft must use Bing directly, not through Yahoo.
7) The trickiness and dishonesty may cause further collapse of Yahoo. In effect, Yahoo is being paid by Microsoft to decrease the popularity of Yahoo.
8) In effect, Microsoft is paying Mozilla Foundation to make Firefox less popular.
9) That may be a way to artificially increase Bing's search traffic, But It's Not Good (BING). To me, that's another example of Microsoft DIE, the Dastardly Insertion of Evil.
10) And, of course, all of that is bad for Microsoft's already bad reputation because of being adversarial to customers, decreasing the popularity of anything from Microsoft. So, Microsoft is paying to decrease the popularity of Microsoft.
That is so WEIRD that I feel compelled to joke about it. (WEIRD = When Every Idea Rates Dumb)
chrome uses more memory, but doesn't get slow as molasses after a few hours.
not even when installing flashblock. most youtube videos skip frames here on my i5 laptop.
surf over 30 tabs and close them and you will see ram use over 1 gig on firefox
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Which benchmark is suggested?
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Title says "MP4 support on Mac", does that mean Firefox still doesn't support it on Windows and Linux?
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“Every program attempts to expand until it includes a marketplace/appstore/.... Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which do.”
Careful what you wish for, next they'll take the "about:config" away.
Firefox is also a smaller download, a smaller install, starts faster, runs JavaScript faster, allows plugins on the mobile version, and allows users to run their own sync server, compared with Chrome.
Mozilla's work is really shining these days. Firefox is a better browser by every metric I can think of.
Firefox jumped the shark when they finally did away with a functional search bar. Now it's all about the forks, like Palemoon.
pretty please
Hmm I just found out that Firefox over 31 changed the way certificates are handled and now all my internal certs signed by own CA are broken. Can't even get an exception dialog box. Just an error about how it can't load the page. And from the bug reports, it sounds like a lot of devices are broken now too. Arguably I should comply with some 46-page document on CA Cert best practices. What a mess. Why does Firefox and Google keep pushing the idea that self-signed certs are not secure? In any case, with radical changes to core things like the SSL engine, how can any enterprise deal with Firefox?
FWIW, multiprocess isn't shipping with 36. It hasn't even migrated off the nightly channel at this point. That said, Win64 builds are.
You do realize that Mozilla is vastly smaller than every other major browser vendor except for maybe Opera (which as someone else said, is just rebadged chromium anyway these days)?
I agree that FF is better than the other browsers except for one obviously glaring problem: choppy flash video. It is a real problem and no fault of my own so don't throw it back at me.
I only have this problem with non-fullscreen video on Linux. On Win7, everything is fine.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
How's that Electrolysis project coming along? Will they ever be done?
I switched to a modern browser years ago simply because multi-process is better. With Firefox there is no way to know which tab is draining your battery or consuming all you memory. Actually memory stopped being an issue for me when I switched to Chrome, so perhaps Firefox was just leaking it everywhere, but being able to identify pages using a lot of CPU and selectively killing them is the must-have feature that all the other major browsers have had for years. The improved performance, stability and security is a bonus.
Mozilla devs and the Netscape ones before them never could get their heads past the whole monolithic process concept.
You haven't used it. I know this because the latest FF is actually quite good. I switched from Chrome to Firefox on Lollipop and there's no going back unless Chrome gives me custom search engines (Yandex, Baidu, DDG at a minimum) and better privacy options like rejecting third-party cookies. And performance is roughly the same. Desktop-wise Chromium is slightly better but the extensions are worse, like Youtube downloaders and things that Google hates.
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Firefox is also a smaller download (...)
I'm not so sure any more.
v35 was a 46 MB update: firefox-35.0.complete.mar 09-Jan-2015 09:23 46M
Offline installers are 38 MB.
Hover or mouseover is broken in 35. Something very haywire.
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allows plugins on the mobile version
This is the big one for me. Firefox on Android is the only Android browser that I've found that lets me have a decent policy for cookie management. The Self-Destructing Cookies plugin is the main reason that I switched to Firefox on my phone and tablet. The lack of tab sandboxing is the main reason that I stick with Safari on the desktop.
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Go Firefox! Good job as always.
And yet Mozilla receive north of $100 Million a year in income - just how large a budget do you need to write a web browser full time?
Good, JavaScript is faster. Now where is my in-browser ad blocking engine written in C? Since lots of articles have run that whine about Adblock Plus slowing down browsing due to injecting a massive CSS file into every page, let's see the ad blocking capability put where it really belongs. THAT is a feature that almost every user of Firefox wants: ad blocking in the browser.
there was an announcement a couple of months ago that Electrolysis was enabled by default in the nightlies.
Trunk is several versions ahead of release.
So probably the release after this one, i.e. 36
Firefox doesn't get slow as molasses after a few hours either. Perhaps you are thinking of a very old version or have a pretty low-spec computer.
Could you not tell by the ":-P" that I was joking? The aspergers is strong in this one.
When Firefox runs out of memory now, it will login to Newegg for you and order more.
considering that Google is by far the largest contributor to Mozilla, it would actually be in the best interests NOT to compete with Google.
Though upon reading the wiki, it seems they are now getting the Money from Yahoo, of which MS takes a 12% cut as it actually goes though Bing, so it may not be in the best interests to compete with anyone really! :)
Well I don't use Firefox anymore other than as another alternate browser for weird instances... However I remember two things both good and bad:
1) Memory management in Firefox was terrible (at least in the last version I used).
2) Some Firefox extensions were very useful for certain things... Like Firebug and debugging JavaScript.
I also should comply with RFCs too as my cert appears to violate part of one RFC. Problem was I'm not an SSL expert so I didn't know where to look. In any case, the devs have been fairly responsive on bugzilla to this issue and I've received a lot of help, which really impressed me. I've also suggested that in the future, the failure modes of SSL verification, particularly in Thunderbird, should pop up more descriptive messages than simply "unknown error occurred." Ideally a utility to check certificates against the now stricter and more correct criteria would be ideal.
It's been answered before. A lot more than you think assuming you want to be able to hire competitively.
i always use the latest version on my hp i5 laptop with 8gb ram. Right now, firefox is consuming 750mb of ram.
I relate the issue with the flash plugin.
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