While you might wish to avoid use of Adobe Flash due to security issues, such as were addressed in the two separate releases (v. 'Real time' or 'live' viewing is a misnomer, however, since Flash is actually downloading separate video and audio streams, buffering them and then reintegrating them. Since YouTube has changed video formats, apparently in an effort to restrict downloading, there is currently no way to view the video in 'real time' without using Flash AFAIK. You should soon be able to play videos sans Flash.įor historical purposes (and in the event that YouTube reverts to Flash), here is what I'd noted previously:

Be sure to head on over to the update menu and report back with any interesting find you may have on the new and improved online experience.Latest news is that YouTube is switching to HTML5 as the default format. So if you fancy Mozilla’s open source Firefox project now you have even more reasons to do so. It allows users to share links via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Gmail and more from a single pop-up. The centralized, unified sharing feature, called Firefox Share is also a lot more accessible in the latest browser version. OS X users can also expect new goodies from Firefox 35, namely the included support for MP4 video. The new an Firefox Marketplace Beta is part of a new push towards richer app and game content straight inside the browser and Mozilla really seems to be working hard to catch up to Chrome on this department. The iOS browser should also fair just fine with the functionality, but sadly Internet Explorer and Safari still lack native WebRTC, but plugins are available.īesides Firefox Hello, Mozilla Firefox 35 also comes with an array of fixes and improvements. The list of eligible browses is a little fuzzy, but it most definitely includes recent version of Chrome and Opera for Desktop and Android. The beauty of the cross-platform WebRTC standard is that it is already implemented in a lot of modern browsers so chances are that most of your friends will be able to accept you invite and video-chat straight away. No sign-in or registration is required, but if you opt-in Firefox Hello even allows you to create a contact list for convenience. Using it is dead simple and requires you to simply press the new Hello button on the task bar, hit start conversation and then share the link with the other party. While the standard itself is not new and Firefox Hello has been floating around as an addon for the open-source browser, version 35 bundles it straight into the core of the application and makes it easily accessible. It is an implementation of the WebRTC API that allows easy browser-to-browser voice, video and p2p file sharing all without any additional plugins. Firefox Hello is one of Mozilla’s most exciting innovations.

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