Firefox 20 Gets H.264 Support on Windows
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The upcoming Firefox 20 for Windows will include a Windows Media Foundation playback backend that will enable the browser to support H.264, AAC, and MP3.
The feature is currently integrated in the nightly builds of the browser, but not enabled by default.
While the addition only affects the Windows version of Firefox, Mozilla said that the feature allows Firefox to play H.264 video, as well as AAC audio in MP4 and M4A files, and MP3 audio files without having to rely on third-party plug-ins.
To enable the backend, enter about:config in the URL bar and change the entry "media.windows-media-foundation.enabled" to "true". The nightly build can be downloaded here.
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You really use FF and dont use Flashblock ?
Mine doesn't crash with flash enabled. You sure you're not using flash v9?
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All they need to put together a few things in FF,
1. Let it support pdf, whole JRE, flash right out of the box.
2. Program it to halt flash activity on non visible tabs (like chrome).
3. Make main GUI to run into separate thread all together.
4. Improve 'work offline' mode.
Specs for a perfect FF.
It still crashes on me. I don't blame FF though, it's definitely Flash. When my browser locks up, it returns to normal as soon as I kill Flash through Process Hacker (task manager).
I hate flash, but I hate HTML5 more.
They are planning it. Though, there are problems on Linux, because there is no ideal codec backend to use and rely on.
Exactly why do you hate html5, oh enlightened one?
What do you feel towards XHTML? HTML 4.1? HTML 3?
Share your opinion with us, be so kind...
To cover major browsers a site needs to have videos in at least 2 video formats, which isn't exactly cheap.
On top of it, some sites must support older browsers.
What's so hard in supporting Firefox 3.6 and up, IE 9 and up, Opera 11 and Chrome (whatever version)?
I mean come on, who is still using other ancient versions? And I know corporations and schools still use Windows XP and IE8 (god know why IE). A sad sad truth, for many developers.
They are.... Google boot to gecko and firefox os.
That the point of why we do have old broswers and OS' I work for a enterprize company who's not in the business of IT however they of need PC and servers to support there work. I'm talking 300k+ workstations and probably serveral thousand servers. There are also law where certain type of information must be held for 7-10 year so we have application that old where the company who made the application no longer exist but it must be kept running for legal reasons. Basically it all comes money to money the more the VP's and CIO, exec etc. save money the bigger there bonuses are so most things only get done when they must or at the last moment.
On Opera it's called right-click, inspect element, delete node.
what i hate is that its not just one simple function that you could block like with flash or javasctipt
it will get abused, and there is a chance we want get rid of it without breaking sites in the future.
No, or rather yes if you want to block a site. The ML in HTML5 means markup language.
With Flash, you have a posted file and possible external actionscript (ascii) file embedded within the HTML markup language. .SWF files.
There seems to no end to those confusing Flash with HTML. Some of end-user viewable capabilities cross back and forth into being redundant, like embedded video, sound, & scripting.
The platforms nest one (Flash and the .SWF file) within the other, HTML5 tags that comprise the web page.
// Digress here...
Flash sites from several (10+) years ago, like , , and (just some random ones that come to mind) made flash stand out for what Macromedia wanted it to be before Adobe ruined it.
These were not the crappy ads sprayed into website to annoy you.
These were genuine multimedia sites and experiences with catching intros and effects. More art than business and ad revenue generators.
I tried to insert some URLs. Maybe they will work.