FireFox 15 Released with a New Bananabread 3D Game Demo

The latest update from Firefox 15 was released on August 28th, with significant improvements to memory usage that makes it faster, but one of the main highlight of the latest release is it's game related enhancements. The FireFox released was included with Bananabread game demonstration that makes the point and proves that HTML5 gaming isn't a joke. The browser also tackled with its long standing memory leakage problems affecting certain add-ons and the improvements makes browsing smoother and more responsive. The release will also makes animations smoother with an improved JavaScript engine and enhancements to WebGL. It also introduces support for compressed textures, allowing game developers to build graphics-heavy games without losing performance. For developers, the integrated JavaScript Debugger can also be used over a local network to remotely debug apps running on Firefox for Android. Meanwhile to enhance Firefox gaming enhancements it offers a new demo of Bananabread, a 3D first person shooter game. The game is intended to serve as a test case for running a demanding 3D game in browsers. It will also proved that games with this nature can run in JavaScript and WebGL. It is a port of C++ game engine and not custom JavaScript. There's an important reminders for Firefox users who want to use the demo of Bananabread. Before you can use the 3D Game, you must upgrade to Firefox 15 because it needs to compressed textures first. Aside from the above-mentioned changes in Firefox 15, it also makes improvement with the version 3 of the SPDY (‘speedy’) networking protocol. For more information regarding the latest release of Firefox 15 just visit the official blog of Mozilla Firefox. Here's the video demo of Bananabread:

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