Neowin News Feed for: Webrtc

Firefox 108.0.2 fixes high volume crashes for video playback and browser history management

Paul Hill — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 19:42:01 +0000

Mozilla has released Firefox 108.0.2 which brings two important fixes. One is related to video crashes on Mac and the other is related to browser history management on desktop platforms. Read more...

Chrome 98 is coming today with a new vector color font that Apple does not like

Usama Jawad — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:00:01 +0000

Chrome 98 will be arriving later today with support for a new color gradient vector font that Apple's WebKit team has expressed a dislike for. Chrome 98 also removes SDES encryption for key exchange. Read more...

WebRTC becomes an official W3C and IETF standard

Paul Hill — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:10:02 +0000

The W3C and the IETF have finally made WebRTC an official standard. WebRTC has been supported by popular web browsers since 2012 and enables peer-to-peer video and audio calls on the web. Read more...

Steam re-invents ageing chat client to compete with Discord

Paul Hill — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 04:26:01 +0000

Valve has just pushed out a new update to its Steam client which brings the biggest overhaul to the friends list and chat feature in years. The new features will help Steam compete with Discord. Read more...

Microsoft Edge in latest Windows 10 Insider Preview comes with WebRTC 1.0 support

Shreyas Gandhe — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:24:01 +0000

Microsoft has revealed that its Edge browser, now supports the WebRTC 1.0 API, and H.264/AVC and VP8 video codecs in the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview for plugin-free video communication. Read more...

Firefox 49 says goodbye to Firefox Hello

Paul Hill — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 02:10:01 +0000

Mozilla has announced its intentions to pull Firefox Hello, which enabled calls over WebRTC, from Firefox 49. The release for this version of Firefox is planned for September 13, 2016. Read more...

Plug-in free Skype video calling comes to Microsoft Edge

Paul Hill — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:10:01 +0000

Skype for Web, Outlook.com, Office Online, and OneDrive now support plug-in free voice, video, and group video calling in the Microsoft Edge browser. Other browsers will be supported in the future. Read more...

AT&T's Enhanced WebRTC will allow in-browser calls to landlines and mobile numbers

Timi Cantisano — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 21:36:01 +0000

AT&T's support for Enhanced WebRTC could bring a new way of communicating via the Internet. Those using a supported browser will be able to call and text to landline and mobile numbers. Read more...

Firefox 22 to include OdinMonkey, cookie blocking delayed & more

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 18 May 2013 04:47:45 +0000

Mozilla are readying a number of changes for Firefox 22, including fully enabled WebRTC, support for HiDPI displays in Windows, and OdinMonkey for gaming, while cookie blocking has been postponed Read more...

Mozilla working on way to make Firefox phone calls sans plugin

John Callaham — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:34:00 +0000

Mozilla has announced plans to work with AT&T and Ericsson to work on a way for Firefox web browsers to make phone calls without the use of a plugin via the WebRTC standard. Read more...

Microsoft's web browser chat standard challenged by Google and Mozilla

John Callaham — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:24:10 +0000

Google has announced users of the beta version of its Chrome web browser can now 'talk" to users of a beta of Mozilla's Firefox browser via the WebRTC standard, challenging Microsoft's own standard. Read more...

Microsoft releases demo of its proposed web audio-video chat standard

John Callaham — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:29:57 +0000

Microsoft has now released a "working prototype" of a browser-based audio-video chat that uses the company's proposed CU-RTC-Web standard, which is competing with WebRTC. Read more...

Microsoft and Google differ on WebRTC API

John Callaham — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:54:41 +0000

Microsoft has submitted a proposal for its own version of the WebRTC API, which could be used for a web-based version of Skype. However, there is another version that's championed by Google. Read more...

Microsoft could use WebRTC for upcoming Skype web app

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:55:01 +0000

A recent job listing from Microsoft has revealed that the company could use WebRTC for the upcoming web-based version of Skype, which would allow it to be used without plug-in software. Read more...