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Firefox 137 Beta Now Available With VA-API Accelerated H.265/HEVC On Linux

([Mozilla] 9 Minutes Ago Firefox 137.0 Beta)


With [1]Firefox 136 released , Mozilla has promoted Firefox 137 to its beta phase.

Most exciting for Linux users with today's Firefox 137 Beta release is the previously reported news of [2]HEVC/H.265 video playback within Firefox using VA-API . HEVC VA-API support is enabled for Firefox 137 Linux builds to provide a better GPU-accelerated video playback experience on the Linux desktop with the Video Acceleration API being supported across multiple drivers / GPU vendors.

HEVC VA-API playback on Linux is the most notable Firefox 137.0 beta change but there is also other changes like Firefox now identifying all links within PDFs and turning them into hyperlinks, font metadata being displayed as part of the Firefox Inspector's "Fonts" panel, SVG support improvements, and support for the CSS hyphenate-limit-chars property.

Downloads and more details on today's Firefox 137 beta release via [3]Mozilla.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-136-Released

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-137-VA-API-HEVC

[3] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/137.0beta/releasenotes/


phoronix

Like you, I am frequently haunted by profound questions related to man's
place in the Scheme of Things. Here are just a few:

Q -- Is there life after death?
A -- Definitely. I speak from personal experience here. On New
Year's Eve, 1970, I drank a full pitcher of a drink called "Black Russian",
then crawled out on the lawn and died within a matter of minutes, which was
fine with me because I had come to realize that if I had lived I would have
spent the rest of my life in the grip of the most excruciatingly painful
headache. Thanks to the miracle of modern orange juice, I was brought back
to life several days later, but in the interim I was definitely dead. I
guess my main impression of the afterlife is that it isn't so bad as long
as you keep the television turned down and don't try to eat any solid foods.
-- Dave Barry