Firefox 22 Released, Boosts 3-D Gaming and Video Calls 156
Today Mozilla announced the launch of Firefox 22 for desktops and Android devices. For the desktop version, WebRTC, the open source browser-based communications API, is now enabled by default. "This technology makes it possible to place and receive video calls from a mobile or desktop browser or share live video, files and images with friends and family." Firefox 22 also has support for the asm.js subset of JavaScript, which allows for big performance boosts on graphically complex applications in the browser. (We saw a demonstration of this a while back.) Other new features include display scaling options for making text bigger on high-res displays, better WebGL rendering performance, word wrapping for text files displayed in the browser, and the ability to change the playback rate of HTML5 audio and video. The new Android version features include tablet UI support for smaller tablets, and a fix for scrolling in nested frames.
Boosts 3-D Gaming and Video Calls (Score:3, Insightful)
Is there something named Firefox that isn't a browser but uses the same silly exponentially increasing versioning scheme?
Does it stop crap code ? (Score:4, Insightful)
setTimeout(function(){window.locationmanageQueryStringParam('source','autorefresh');}, 600000);
this bit of code is a nightmare on FF mobile, iam trying to read the comments and bam iam looking at the slashdot homepage ? WTF ? i didnt press back
sort it out slashdot, your code needs much more work and if you cared about the user you would NEVER reload a page the user didnt request.
I want a car, no I want a plane... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:An OS to run "web applications" (Score:2, Insightful)
The funny part is that, after they went to all that trouble, 'web apps' are now being replaced by plain old 'apps'.
Re:I want a car, no I want a plane... (Score:3, Insightful)
Adding all this garbage is just setting the browser up to be like IE6 before it... a huge, bloated, buggy, major security risk. Most if not all of those things are already true to some extent, but at this rate it's only going to get worse. Once upon a time, a web browser just fetched web pages... now it's making it braindead easy to run unheard of amounts of potentially untrusted code. Beyore, you would have to download an executable in most cases or even buy a program at a store... now, all you have to do is browse a few web pages.
Re:Boosts 3D Gaming and video calls? (Score:2, Insightful)
I do VoIP in my browser, and I can tell you, while I like the capability to call people from my computer for free using Google Voice, I FUCKING HATE being forced to do it in a web browser. The Gmail site is a bloated pig, just like so many others these days, and Firefox itself is also bloated to hell these days. With 1GB memory, it is NOT a pleasant experience, and sometimes the damn plug-in even refuses to load. I literally cannot open Firefox with Gmail and Slashdot without the system swapping like a son of a bitch. If Google provided a "native" client, I wouldn't hesitate to use it and stop having to load and stay on a bloated web page within a bloated browser for the entire duration of the call. Simply put, 3D gaming and video calls are a DUMB idea for web browsers.
Re:Are there still memory leaks? (Score:4, Insightful)
Unfortunately, memory leaks are usually blamed on the browser, not on a plug-in, regardless of the cause.
Give me an easy way to trace which plug-in it is.
Surely Mozilla could do that?
They already tell me which plug-ins take a long time to load, why not some basic memory management?