We also saw the launch of specific development branches including UX, which has led to the new Australis user interface, which sees a streamlined tab, revamped menu and customisation features. Some of the landmark new features we’ve seen include a per-site Permissions Manager, enhanced Sync options, tabs on demand, silent updates and add-on enhancements. It’s true to say that individual updates often fail to deliver anything substantial, but cumulatively they roll together to produce a web browser that is radically different to the one – version 4 – that marked the start of a new era back in 2011. On one hand, customers want to be able to watch videos from sites like Netflix yet at the same time, parts of DRM are closed which of course goes against Mozilla’s open-source nature.ĭespite implementing it, Mozilla contends that it doesn’t believe DRM is a desirable market solution but is currently the only way to watch a popular segment of content.Not everyone gets by with the default browser on their computer, and when it comes to picking an alternative, Firefox is one of the most popular out there, having clawed back support from upstart rivals like Google Chrome and Opera in recent years by switching to a rapid release cycle, ensuring major new versions of the browser are released every six weeks. The foundation found itself between a rock and a hard place on the topic a year ago. Mozilla said it has also improved Firefox page load times via speculative connection warmup and fixed various security issues. And for those that don’t want CDM, there’s also a version of the browser available without it.Įlsewhere, Firefox 38 includes support for Ruby annotations and has added tab-based preferences. Mozilla said it has enclosed CDM in a sandbox to provide a necessary layer of security. Once a user installs Firefox 38, the Adobe Content Decryption Module (CDM) will be downloaded and activated whenever a user visits a site that uses it.
The fruits of Mozilla’s year-long efforts are now baked into the latest stable release of Firefox, version 38.Īs explained in a blog post on the matter, Firefox 38 implements the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) API to support encrypted HTML5 video and audio playback. Nearly a year to the day, Mozilla reluctantly announced plans to begin implementing a component that would allow content wrapped in digital rights management (DRM) to be played using HTML5 within Firefox.
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