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Firefox 36 Arrives With Full HTTP/2 Support, New Design For Android Tablets

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

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 36 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions to the browser include some security improvements, better HTML 5 support, and a new tablet user interface on Android. The biggest news for the browser is undoubtedly HTTP/2 support, the roadmap for which Mozilla outlined just last week. Mozilla plans to keep various draft levels of HTTP/2, already in Firefox, for a few versions. These will be removed "sometime in the near future." The full changelog is here.

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  1. Don't forget Firefox Hello! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't forget this version also comes with Firefox Hello! Firefox Hello allows you to voice chat with all your friends, right from your browser! You'll know about it because when you update to Firefox 36, Firefox sure as hell won't let you miss this new feature that you never wanted in a god-damned browser and will immediately remove from the toolbar because it's goddamned useless and WHY IS THIS IN A BROWSER AT ALL?!!!

    (I know the answer to that last one: because VOIP is part of the increasingly bloated and useless HTML 5 spec and this uses the new HTML 5 VOIP junk. In case you wondered when HTML 5 jumped the shark...)

    1. Re:Don't forget Firefox Hello! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

      I'm pretty sure it was added previous to 36, but the "we're forcibly adding it to your toolbar and popping up a popup about how great it is" is new this version. Previous versions you had to hunt it out to find it.

      This version also forcibly adds the new "share this page" button (which also existed previously but wasn't forcibly added), because copy and pasting the link out of the address bar is too hard, I guess.

      I love how Firefox wants to talk about how customizable and user-centric it is and every single upgrade seems to remove options and rearrange my toolbar on me to meet some UX hipster's plans for how I'm supposed to be browsing the web rather than how I do. If only the other browsers weren't just as bad at that as Firefox is. I suppose Chrome at least doesn't have a chat client built-in. Does it?

    2. Re:Don't forget Firefox Hello! by dns_server · · Score: 4, Informative

      Webrtc is a standard that has been in the browser for the last year or more.
      What the button does is open a web page that calls the standard api's.
      Adding this button does not bloat the browser that much because the underlying api is already there.

  2. Re:ARGH! They removed -remote!! by Mike+Van+Pelt · · Score: 4, Informative

    Never mind... firefox -new-tab www.mozilla.org apparently works like firefox -remote "openURL(www.mozilla.org, new-tab)" used to. (At least, for my use case.)

  3. Re:Hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hello is just an interface for the HTML5 WebRTC standard. To disable this HTML5 spec behaviour go to

    about:config?filter=media.peerconnection.enabled
     
    and double-click that pref line to change the value to false.

    You're welcome.