14 DAY TRIAL // The new VP9 codec developed by Google and already integrated into Google Chrome will be arriving on Mozilla Firefox soon.
The VP9 codec has been in the works for quite some time, and Google promises that it will deliver better compression for the same bandwidth and better CPU/GPU utilization.
That being said, it was only a matter of time until other parties started to adopt it, and now it's time for Mozilla to officially make the necessary steps to implement it.
A couple of bugs have been corrected for Firefox, ensuring that the browser has the capability to run VP9-powered content. One is 833023 (vp9) Implement VP9 video decoder in Firefox) and the other one is 918550 (libvpx to version 1.3.0).
As it stands right now, the Firefox 28 users will be the first to experience full support for VP9, which is set to arrive on March 18, 2014.