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.

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MORE SHIT???

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:MORE SHIT???

[gweihir]

Couldn't agree more. And I also want the classical UI back, you know the one that was actually usable.

Re:MORE SHIT???

[Anonymous Coward]

Just press F10 to get the old menus back.

Re: MORE SHIT???

[nimbius]

Mod parent up! I was livid after the recent advertising changes. Firefox is now the realMedia player of browsers. How much longer until we get an askjeeves or bonzi buddy bundle, assholes

Re:MORE SHIT???

[wonkey_monkey]

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?

Re:MORE SHIT???

[steelfood]

It's not advertised, but key pinning is an important security feature that's finally made it into the base program.

Now, if only they wouldn't throw up so many roadblocks with self-signed certs. But cert pinning is a good start that they recognize the old model of secure vs insecure based on a cert alone is no longer sufficient. I say, switch to a new model based on the grade of security. E.g.:

Secure and authentic (green)
Secure but maybe not authentic (yellow)
Authentic but possibly insecure, also mixed content (orange)
Neither secure nor verified as authentic (red)

When they do that (and maybe go back to a sane GUI with sane version numbers), I will upgrade.

Re: MORE SHIT???

[SeaFox]

"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.

Re:Breaks my Adobe Reader plugin

[Anonymous Coward]

yeah, the guy who installed adobe reader :-P

Re:I'm done...

[Anonymous Coward]

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...

What's scary is

[steveg]

...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?

Re:What's scary is

[BenFenner]

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...

Re:What's scary is

[OhPlz]

The only issues I've hit is that you can't get at Adblock Plus's settings, which is kind of weird. There's a fork you can install that fixes it. The only other glitch I've seen is that the search bar on Google's Play store disappears. That can be worked around by modifying the user-agent string. Other than that, it works fine. No issues with Youtube, even with plugins to download videos from it.

This is with the x64 build. I've been using it ever since the CEO firing thing happened.

Re:What's scary is

[steelfood]

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.

Re:owners of older machines, behold...

[El_Muerte_TDS]

It's still less memory hungry than Chrome.

Re:Breaks my Adobe Reader plugin

[Alan Shutko]

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

also changes your default search engine

[Tumbleweed]

...to "Yahoo!". Easy to change back, though. :)

Re:Great. More "things I don't need" in my browse

[fahrbot-bot]

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.

Re:Breaks my Adobe Reader plugin

[Em Adespoton]

Shame that your OS of choice can't seem to download a PDF and open it with the default application.

PDF in the browser is a security nightmare. So is PDF in Acrobat Reader, but at least you have a bit more control about what can poke the PDF that way.

Re:owners of older machines, behold...

[MSG]

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.

Re:They horribly broke sessions

[ezakimak]

Discovered that session support is silently disabled in 35 if com.indexedDB.enabled = false.
And no, I did not set that to false myself--don't know what addon did it nor when.
FF provides no logging about the fact either.

Re:Breaks my Adobe Reader plugin

[oogoliegoogolie]

Do you mean the default embedded one that is so slow I'm better off drawing the PDF by hand?

Re:owners of older machines, behold...

[ChunderDownunder]

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