Firefox 24 released [LWN.net]

Firefox 24 released

Posted Sep 17, 2013 22:21 UTC (Tue) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]

A notable feature enabled in this version in the stock Mozilla builds for Linux - gstreamer support. It can be switched on in about:config by setting media.gstreamer.enabled to true. Not sure yet how to make Youtube recongize that for videos which weren't converted to WebM yet. Youtube still tries to push Flash in those cases.

Firefox 24 released

Posted Sep 17, 2013 22:59 UTC (Tue) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]

I put in the patch making those work when viewed directly (rather than in a <video> element) QUITE a while ago. Glad to see they are finally building it by default, couldn't get the distros to do ahead of Mozilla either.

Firefox 24 released

Posted Sep 17, 2013 23:25 UTC (Tue) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048) [Link]

> Not sure yet how to make Youtube recongize that for videos which weren't converted to WebM yet. Youtube still tries to push Flash in those cases.

This is mostly not due to not having webm (try youtube-dl in webm mode to confirm this for yourself), but due to the videos having advertising which youtube cannot shim into html5 content on the client side in Firefox due to not having the Media Source extensions.

Firefox 24 released

Posted Sep 18, 2013 3:14 UTC (Wed) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]

You are right. Just found a video on Youtube which works in HTML5 mode when gstreamer is enabled, and in Flash mode when it's not (it has no WebM available).

Firefox 24 released

Posted Sep 18, 2013 6:48 UTC (Wed) by mikachu (guest, #5333) [Link]

of all the things that they would say "make an extension" about, close tabs to the right wasn't one?

Firefox 24 released ("Close Tabs to the Right")

Posted Sep 18, 2013 15:26 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Yes, that "Close Tabs to the Right" is a bit of a WTF, especially since the analogous "Close Tabs to the Left" is missing.

I use Multiple Tab Handler which includes close-left/close-right features.