Firefox 51 Released With FLAC Audio Support, WebGL 2.0 By Default

[Wilfred]

wayland and video hw accel please :/

Yeah, seconded. There used to be a fedora special repo with firefox+wayland. But it's way out of date now, and it was unusably slow.

[birdie]

I'm now talking about e10s. Xul won't be dropped in the nearest future.

[Hi-Angel]

Glad its finally here, but why it took so long for an open source web browser to implement an open source audio codec?? The WINE folks could have reverse engineered some Windows DLL's faster than this. LOL

As someone already said, priorities. Besides, being open sourced means that you can implement something, not that project's employees going to implement anything.

Some of it has to do with how unlikely it is for Microsoft or Apple to implement it. MS because they're lazy, and Apple because they hate standards and want to see them fail.

On a personal level, I would be happy that it's here, but it's not in Chromium so practically speaking it's not "here" for me.

Not sure if I got you, but if you're referring to the fact that MS & Apple have browsers too — well, that doesn't mean that other browsers can't implement something, thus forcing stragglers to catch up.

Thankfully the next ESR release is 52 which means I can have my add ons working for another 2 months. Then I will hate Mozilla again. God damn them.

It's perhaps the 50th time they are breaking add ons in a major way. Also, Australis!

No wonder their market share is around 6% nowadays. They deserve it. You do not f*ck with your userbase.

There's an ongoing effort in extending Firefox API so that old addons could be ported https://bugzil.la/1215059 Not sure how successful it'd be, but hope they're not too crazy to drop a vast functionality of the browser.

[Azrael5]

Thankfully the next ESR release is 52 which means I can have my add ons working for another 2 months. Then I will hate Mozilla again. God damn them.

It's perhaps the 50th time they are breaking add ons in a major way. Also, Australis!

No wonder their market share is around 6% nowadays. They deserve it. You do not f*ck with your userbase.

I hope that all mozilla add-ons will be put out.

[birdie]

Thankfully the next ESR release is 52 which means I can have my add ons working for another 2 months. Then I will hate Mozilla again. God damn them.

It's perhaps the 50th time they are breaking add ons in a major way. Also, Australis!

No wonder their market share is around 6% nowadays. They deserve it. You do not f*ck with your userbase.

[Azrael5]

I don't understand the reason for which firefox team doesn't abandon ANGLE for WEBGL also on microsoft operating systems. Currently webgl is preferable also on these operating systems.

[DanL]

why it took so long for an open source web browser to implement an open source audio codec??

Priorities... I use FLAC all of the time in my personal music collection, but I never found myself wishing for support for it in a browser.

[89c51]

wayland and video hw accel please :/

[Azrael5]

Some of it has to do with how unlikely it is for Microsoft or Apple to implement it. MS because they're lazy, and Apple because they hate standards and want to see them fail.

On a personal level, I would be happy that it's here, but it's not in Chromium so practically speaking it's not "here" for me.

in fact windows appears more and more a deprecated operating system. I don't know apple but this evidence shows that it is also limited.

[Azrael5]

this release seems to be a good improvement