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I was intrigued by this statement:

> A better video streaming experience for Windows users: Firefox now supports the next-generation, royalty-free video compression technology called AV1

Since I don't care about Windows, I was curious as to whether this had already shipped for other platforms or not. At least using Firefox Developer Edition v66, it works fine behind the media.av1.enabled flag on Linux.

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Also seems that https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities... has yet to be updated.



> I was curious as to whether this had already shipped for other platforms or not.

AV1 support is available on all platforms behing the flag; this release just enables it by default on Windows [1].

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452146


AV1 also uses the brand new media codec sandboxing feature (RDD process). It has platform specific code, hence why only Windows was ready by 65 (but Mac + Linux should be available soon).




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