Woot - Mozilla's Firefox Mobile Nigtly has WebRTC support

Once and again I try the Nightly version of Mozilla Firefox.

Today I noticed that the Mobile version of Firefox has WebRTC support. Woot!?

That means you can go into about:config and set

media.peerconnection.enabled

to true.
If you've got a second mobile device or download the nightly desktop version (and enable peerconnection there too).
Then you can visit the webrtc reference application with the first device, and enter the given URL (at the bottom) on the second device to join the session.
E voilà you've got a working WebRTC (with video and audio) connection between your two devices.

Or even conversat.io ! Yes - use conversat.io - looks promissing. Maybe even for team (ovirt) meetings?

Enjoy and feed-back.

gstreamer as a multimedia backend in Firefox

Wow. After such a long time it happened. Gstreamer can be used as a multimedia backend in Firefox!

So what does this mean? I believe not much yet for the enduser, at least this is a very nice infrastructure change to enable stuff like hardware acceleration e.g. on mobile devices. And from my point of view also a good separation: Do one thing and do it well. Let gstream do the multimedia stuff and Mozilla all that compositing.

Maybe this can be enabled in Fedora - at compile time - to get an maybe accelerated experience. or better codec support e.g. h264 for those who need it (e.g. by using Fluendos codec pack) or even my always favored Dirac!