Firefox 22, launched by the Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday, supports voice calling, video chat and peer-to-peer file sharing through the browser without plug-ins, thanks to full support for the WebRTC application programming interface. Firefox and Google Chrome support WebRTC, but currently Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari browser do not. WebRTC will be on by default in Firefox 22, but the developers are still working out some kinks.
It could do all kinds of tricks like that too...until the malware guys figured out how to pwn it and ruin it for everybody.
The #1 attack vector BY FAR when it comes to malware is the browser, bar none. the more features you cram the riskier it becomes, but I'm sure the Moz guys will learn the hard way when a code red style attack plows through their users, heck that Yahoo porn bug that went around last year pretty much only worked in Moz browsers so its not like the malware guys aren't already targeted their stuff.
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Firefox 22: Look Ma, No Plug-ins!
Posted by: Richard Adhikari June 26, 2013 10:54 AMFirefox 22, launched by the Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday, supports voice calling, video chat and peer-to-peer file sharing through the browser without plug-ins, thanks to full support for the WebRTC application programming interface. Firefox and Google Chrome support WebRTC, but currently Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari browser do not. WebRTC will be on by default in Firefox 22, but the developers are still working out some kinks.
The #1 attack vector BY FAR when it comes to malware is the browser, bar none. the more features you cram the riskier it becomes, but I'm sure the Moz guys will learn the hard way when a code red style attack plows through their users, heck that Yahoo porn bug that went around last year pretty much only worked in Moz browsers so its not like the malware guys aren't already targeted their stuff.