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Firefox 136 Available With AMD GPU Linux Video Acceleration, AArch64 Linux Binaries

([Mozilla] 14 Minutes Ago Firefox 136)


Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times.

Exciting with the Firefox 136 release is [1]enabling hardware video decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux by default. It's a long overdue change and finally in place for improving the AMD Linux graphics experience with the Firefox web browser.

Also notable for Firefox 136 on the Linux side is now offering AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) binaries. Mozilla is now producing Linux AArch64 Firefox official binaries to complement their x86 and x86_64 official binary releases.

Firefox 136 also brings improved HTTPS handling, preferring PNG images when copying images out of Firefox, Cookie Banner Handling by default in private browsing mode is now disabled, using LZMA compression for Firefox macOS DMG packages, and other enhancements.

For web developers, Firefox 136 adds support for the "autocorrect" global attribute for auto-correction on editable text elements, WebRTC can now send and receive video encoded using AV1, WebRTC simulcast screen-shared video using H.264 is now supported, and a variety of other updates.

Firefox 136.0 binaries can be downloaded from [2]Mozilla.org .



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

[2] https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/136.0/


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A serious public debate about the validity of astrology? A serious believer
in the White House? Two of them? Give me a break. What stifled my laughter
is that the image fits. Reagan has always exhibited a fey indifference toward
science. Facts, like numbers, roll off his back. And we've all come to
accept it. This time it was stargazing that became a serious issue....Not
that long ago, it was Reagan's support of Creationism....Creationists actually
got equal time with evolutionists. The public was supposed to be open-minded
to the claims of paleontologists and fundamentalists, as if the two were
scientific colleagues....It has been clear for a long time that the president
is averse to science...In general, these attitudes fall onto friendly American
turf....But at the outer edges, this skepticism about science easily turns
into a kind of naive acceptance of nonscience, or even nonsense. The same
people who doubt experts can also believe any quackery, from the benefits of
laetrile to eye of newt to the movement of planets. We lose the capacity to
make rational -- scientific -- judgments. It's all the same.
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