Firefox 4.0 videos

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Gotta love html5 video elements :D
 
It's not really, tabs on top and Aero have been in the works for a long time now and all browsers are heading this way.
 
mrk said:
It's not really, tabs on top and Aero have been in the works for a long time now and all browsers are heading this way.
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Yeah I wasn't having a dig. I've used nowt but Firefox for years now, the vid just reminded me of Chrome is all. :) Where other browsers are compiled with 'make', Firefox is compiled with 'win'. :D
 
Shame ff4 isn't out until 2011 though - unless this has changed?
 
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As long as it goes 64-bit and still supports add-ons, then those are the main factors for me.
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It won't and even if it does it won't be useful, like all other 64bit browsers (just FF and IE8 I guess) because a) Flash is not 64bit and Adobe have no plans to release it for 64bit Windows and b) There is no 64bit plugin support for many other things for browsers too.
 
been using chrome for a couple weeks now, and tabs above address bar is one of those things you get used to straight away. in fact, firefox tabs are harder to find at a glance now.
 
I just hope Mozilla aren't planning on shipping a web browser with HTML5 support when HTML5 is still just a draft standard. As then they'll be just as bad, no.. worse, than Microsoft were with IE v3/4/5/6.
 
Firefox 3.6 already supports it though and at least Mozilla can update it with each version update of FF itself - the videos the mozblog shows (the Op) is in HTML 5 as well and it's pretty neat.
 
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Everyone, other than MS, ship a browser that does some kind of HTML5 features. The likes of YouTube are already starting to support the HTML5 <video> tag, even if they use H.264 (which Firefox can't deal with).

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It won't and even if it does it won't be useful,
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It is in some circumstances. On OS X there's (apparently) a considerable startup penalty for being x86, so the focus has been on having a x64 version on there first. Someone's doing x64 binaries for Windows, they're probably worth throwing some benchmarks at.
 
Still pointless though without plugin support - well until HTML5 is widely adopted for video and interactive content.

Linux only has 64bit flash and Adobe still say:

Why aren’t the Windows and Mac 64-bit alpha versions available on Adobe Labs?
Release of this alpha version of 64-bit Flash Player on Linux is the first step in delivering upon Adobe’s commitment to make Flash Player native 64-bit across platforms. We chose Linux as our initial platform in response to numerous requests in our public Flash Player bug and issue management system and the fact that Linux distributions do not ship with a 32-bit browser or a comprehensive 32-bit emulation layer by default. Until this prerelease, use of 32-bit Flash Player on Linux has required the use of a plugin wrapper, which prevents full compatibility with 64-bit browsers. With this prelease, Flash Player 10 is now a full native participant on 64-bit Linux distributions. We are committed to bringing native 64-bit Flash Player to Windows and Mac in future prereleases.
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This magical "future", when is anyone's guess :p

FF could deal with H264 in html5 but IIRC it's not there yet due to licensing, whilst Theora is open H264 requires money to exchange hands before it can be used.
 
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With OOPP there's nothing stopping you running x86 plugins in an x64 browser - IIRC Safari does it already...
 
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