Category: Mozilla

Revive the old time chattering on MSN thanks to Mozilla’s new update By @VicenteA_George #Mozilla #Chat #Update

Version 41 has arrived and brings some new and interesting stuff within.

This new update has been released to Windows, Mac, Linux and Android OS last week and although they all share the same basic code there’s one thing you can now do on one of them…

Meet the Mozilla Messenger feature

Firefox-41This new extra, works in combination with the Firefox Hello (integrated VoIP client)

The Hello VoIP allows you to made video call to interact with someone else, but now you can also use the messenger feature, which come in handy when you’re in a crowded place and can’t really talk.

At the moment this feature just works with the desktop version, let’s see if it makes its way to the rest

To use this feature everything you’ll need is the latest version of Firefox and then go to the little smiling face on the top right corner, that’s all.Apart from this, the update also enhance the accounts feature, letting you now use a profile picture, so you’ll see to who are you talking to even if there’s no video.

Also, you’ll have a better Sync cross devices so you can have all your passwords, bookmarks, history automatically updated on all of them.

The Android update is not so fancy, just bringing some bugs an minor improvement such as the ability to choose whether to use Google or Bing as browsers.

To see the complete release go HERE

What are your thoughts on this new trend of adding messenger like feature to apps? Do you think we need more way to communicate each other? Or should we improve the ones we have?

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#Google #Microsoft #Mozilla & #Netflix are just some members of “AllianceForOpenMedia” By @VicenteA_George #Media #Codecs

We live in an age when almost everything is located on Internet and every day more and more of our Media are at some point, unplayable due to some “Format Restriction” of any kind.

Well, soon that’s about to end thanks to the recently announced Alliance for Open Media.

Starting on September 1st Seven of the most greatest Media creator have created this “Justice League” of Formats and Codecs for video and media in general.

“The Open and royalty-free format for next-generation
ultra high definition media”

Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix have made partnership into this Open-Source Project to reach to ultimate goal of “develop next-generation media formats, codecs and technologies in the public interest.”

Something that really complicate media consumption in the format of the video we’re trying to see.

For example:

For using MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 formats, a royalty must be paid to MPEG LA.

Mozilla has Daala

Google is has on VP9 and 10

Etc.

That’s why should not come as surprise that this guys wanna save some money and as result we have a more persistent and pleasant usability of video formats.

What they want to do as main task is to create media:

Interoperable and open.

Optimized for the web.

Scalable to any modern device at any bandwidth.

Designed with a low computational footprint and optimized for hardware.

Capable of consistent, highest-quality, real-time video delivery.

Flexible for both commercial and non-commercial content, including user-generated content.

(Something worth the mention is Apple absence in the group, which is easily explainable.

Apple owns QuickTime and they need to pay anyone to implement videos on  iTunes or Apple TV.)

The license name will be Apache 2.0 and will work under the W3C patent rules.

If you want to know more about the project you can go HERE or follow them at @a4omedia

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