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Firefox 34 released

Firefox 34 released

Posted Dec 2, 2014 20:13 UTC (Tue) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
In reply to: Firefox 34 released by dfsmith
Parent article: Firefox 34 released

Considering the video/audio chat is done with HTML5 and WebRTC... something Firefox already supported... and most of the work is done in Javascript I think... and the tiny bits they added to allow it to generate a URL... I don't think adding the chat feature really did much to bloat it. Given that the vast majority of chat services require an account and don't offer much in the way of privacy and security (so far as I'm concerned) actually offering encrypted P2P chat without the need for (much of) a third-party is a big thing. For many it will probably eliminate the desire for something like Skype.

Anyway, to answer your question... you can probably compile it from source without that... or use any of the other browsers that have a "we want to be smaller" goal. I'm not really familiar with any of that so I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.


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Firefox 34 released

Posted Dec 2, 2014 23:47 UTC (Tue) by dfsmith (guest, #20302) [Link] (2 responses)

Would anyone like to spider https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ and plot a chart of (say) the size of the Win32/en-US Firefox installer versus release? It goes from about 4MB to 38MB over its lifetime. It would be fun to speculate on the size of the installer in 2020.

Firefox 34 released

Posted Dec 3, 2014 3:06 UTC (Wed) by Fowl (subscriber, #65667) [Link]

https://timtaubert.de/blog/2012/04/are-we-small-yet/

Someone at Mozilla did even!

Back in 2012 at least, but the domain's gone now.

Firefox 34 released

Posted Dec 15, 2014 16:38 UTC (Mon) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link]

The problem with download is how the web changed. Back then the browser was mostly an online document viewer with a bit of scripting support, nowadays it's required to be a whole virtual application runtime that happens to be able to still display documents as well.


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