Firefox 4 and Opera are ready to support Google’s WebM
Since its first release on previous November 2009, Mozilla Firefox 4 has been known for its ‘fast, powerful and empowering’ characteristics. As the positive response for Google’s VP8 video codec which was announced to the world on May 20th 2010, Mozilla upgrades its Firefox 4 prototype featuring Google’s ‘Open Source’ WebM. What does ‘open source’ mean? It means that the source code of the software is available for free.
The WebM is a combination of VP8 with Ogg Vorbis audio format for ‘open souce’ technology. It is a royalty-free format, so the audiences can enjoy more convenience in watching YouTube videos for free. Supported by its Chrome browser, Google has used this codec to all YouTube videos, with both Mozilla and Opera ready to support the Google’s WebM.
On previous 14th June 2010, Mozilla released its fifth developer preview based on Gecko 1.9.3 rendering engine to be installed into its Firefox 4. This new developer not only supports WebM, but also enables the hardware acceleration for viewing HTML5 videos in full screen. The upgraded version of Firefox 4 is going to be available at the end of June 2010.
Opera in the other hand has also added WebM to its latest developer. Opera’s developer is available for Mac, Windows and Linux to support the ‘open source’ video, HTML5 offline web applications, geolocation, and the background running tasks. And this developer is available now.
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