Firefox 49.0 Is Now Available

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 49.0 Is Now Available

While being delayed one week due to last-minute bugs, Firefox 49.0 is now available this morning...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mozilla-Firefox-49

[Anvil]

wonder when Adobe will ship Flashplayer 23 for linux

[treba]

"improved video performance for systems with SSSE3 CPU support while lacking hardware acceleration"

Does this mean it improves video performance on platforms without video decoding acceleration (like on linux were firefox still does not support vaapi/vdpau/openmax) or only when layers acceleration is turned off?

[uid313]

Wow, finally support for <details> and <summary>, about time! Chrome has supported this since forever.

But where is support for input type=date, time, datetime, etc. Both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge support this.

Btw, will Firefox support ORTC? It is needed for web Skype.

[bug77]

Wow, finally support for <details> and <summary>, about time! Chrome has supported this since forever.

But where is support for input type=date, time, datetime, etc. Both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge support this.

Btw, will Firefox support ORTC? It is needed for web Skype.

ORTC is an Edge-only contraption, afaik. Browsers should probably ignore it altogether.

[nkalkhof]

Isn't Amazon Prime Video supposed to work with this version? All I get is
Firefox is installing components needed to play the audio or video on this page. Please try again later bummer

[crystall]

There's a typo in the article. It's "Web Speech Synthesis API" not the

[schmidtbag]

"improved video performance for systems with SSSE3 CPU support while lacking hardware acceleration"

Does this mean it improves video performance on platforms without video decoding acceleration (like on linux were firefox still does not support vaapi/vdpau/openmax) or only when layers acceleration is turned off?

Yes... it explicitly states that in the same sentence you quoted...

[ua=42]

Isn't Amazon Prime Video supposed to work with this version? All I get is
Firefox is installing components needed to play the audio or video on this page. Please try again later bummer

It did that the first time for me on windows as well. It has to download the support from google directly. So leave your browser open, then restart it later and try again.

[eydee]

It works great with Twich. Disable flash completely to load the HTML5 interface, unless you're selected for the beta and can do it anyway.