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This is not a new button, right? Firefox view already existed.
I like that they changed the icon of Firefox view. The firefox icon on it didn't make any sense.
Probably in 120.
There are a lot of changes in 120 in format support.
120 supports hardware HEVC decoding.
I am sorry but this doesn't make sense. Chromium is an open source software and in no way is glued together with any operating system. Unless you want to glue it. They can just have edge WebView2... glued with the os the same way google has to use android webview when a webview is needed.
Microsoft back in the days was forced to... unglue... Internet Explorer. And they managed to do it in a browser that was.. glued in the first place. No OS has to glue anything no matter the source of it being open or closed. Unless they want to glue.
Microsoft btw just.. managed to unglue... Teams from Office... this is way more difficult to do. They will find a way to unglue Edge lol.
For you and me maybe not. For most people it is. And even if we can do it, if we use specific software that work only on windows we have no option. Windows is a monopoly like Android is for a reason. Because most people for specific reasons can't avoid them. Microsoft should be forced to do what they have forced Google to do in Android. At least where I live, in EU. Ballon tips to have the option to use another browser and an option to disable Edge and all the crap asking all the time to use Edge. Like the android ballon tip and the option we have to at least disable the crap known as Android Chrome.
Guys, I keep reading this, but it's not the same thing. At all. You don't want to get Google's crap? You don't visit their crap websites. There are so many websites in this world to visit to avoid Google's crap. You just don't type anything with google on it in your address bar. The only way to avoid Microsoft's crap is to install another operating system in your desktop or laptop. It's just not the same thing. At all.
Microsoft should be forced to do what they have forced Google to do in Android. At least where I live, in EU. Ballon tips to have the option to use another browser and an option to disable Edge and all the crap asking all the time to use Edge. Like the android ballon tip and the option we have to at least disable Android Chrome.
I hope it's true, but honestly I don't believe sites and opinions that have to do with google from sites like the verge.
Because sites like the verge are in reality rivals to google. For example verge is owned by voxmedia which has an advertising company and a web advertsing platform. They are rivals to google which also is an advertising company. They hate google because they want google's money lol. I seriously doubt they can be objective especially to google.
They are focused on AV1. Good, I will focused on it in future, I hope it beats MPEG-LA's VVC.
That's not the point, in case you don't know everybody is focusing on AV1 including Google.
Google is actually the main developer of AV1.
Nobody asks from Mozilla to include software HEVC decoding. They would have to pay a lot of money for it and honestly they shouldn't give to MPEG-LA a single dollar.
They could do what Chromium has done and include ONLY hardware decoding support.
Chromium pays nothing to MPEG-LA for that because they use our own hardware, our graphics card, and the manufacturer of the graphics card has already paid for it.
I also don't see any issue coming from it with widevine, if there isn't any issue from it in Chromium, I don't see why it would cause issues only to Firefox.
They proparly don't have the resources to include support for it. Totally understandable. But I will be selfish on this, my choice of my primary browser would be based on my needs....
Yes, mv2 is a good example. But not a deal breaker for me because most chromium based browsers have a NATIVE adblocker on them. NATIVE adlocking, you know... ablocking that will never break because Chrome, Edge or Firefox don't have NATIVE adbloking on them and you have to rely on extensions for that.
There is demand for hevc. Just have a look at Jeffylin, Emby or Plex forums. No, Mozilla doesn't care, they have been mulitple requests and they close them all with RESOLVED WONTFIX. People won't keep begging Mozilla, they are just switching to another browser.
First of all jpegxl was an experimental flag and option in chromium, it never made it as a "real" feature in chromium based browsers. Find a better example, that ain't it.
About your other comment, you have no idea how popular Plex, Jellyfin and Emby are. In desktop if they use Firefox they are stuck at re-encoding their videos on the fly to h264 and waste resources and quality. Many of them have no idea that chromium based browsers now support directplay on hevc. Everyday many of them are informed and leave Firefox.
They will. If Apple doesn't comply with EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) they will have to pay fines of up to 10% of a company's global turnover for infringements. Let them try not to comply lol. Their deadline is on May 2024.
Edge should be treated the same way as the browsers of Google and Apple.
They all including Microsoft have operating systems that try to make people to switch to their browsers with "recommendations".
Especially Microsoft is more aggressive today than Google or Apple on that. Because the majority of people refuse to switch to Edge.
If Edge isn't on the same "app position" of Safari and Chrome and is treated like Firefox, Vivaldi, Brave etc... that's a scandal.