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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?

      --
      systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
    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:I'm done... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    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...

  4. What's scary is by steveg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...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?

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    Ignorance killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.
    1. Re:What's scary is by BenFenner · · Score: 3, Informative

      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...

    2. Re:What's scary is by steelfood · · Score: 3, Informative

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

    It's still less memory hungry than Chrome.

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

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

  7. Re:Great. More "things I don't need" in my browse by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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    It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
  8. Re:owners of older machines, behold... by MSG · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.