Firefox execs seem excited about this new ability as well and are pushing the video experience. “Bringing Firefox to Fire TV is an exciting new way to reach our users and serve up more of the full web to everyone,” said Mark Mayo, Sr. Vice President of Firefox. “Firefox has always been about bringing the web directly to people no matter what device they’re using. Starting today, we will be able to expand the already great Fire TV experience by enabling viewers to surface a multitude of web content — including videos — through Firefox.”
The product description for Firefox is as follows: “Watch videos from YouTube and other popular sites — or search the entire web — with Firefox for Fire TV. Use your Fire TV remote or app to play, pause, fast forward and rewind. The Firefox for Fire TV home screen even includes quick access to YouTube, other video sites and some of the web’s best content and ideas. Firefox for Fire TV is made by Mozilla, the non-profit champions of a healthy internet.” I have only used Firefox on the All-New 2017 Fire TV 4K briefly, but it seems solid and does what you’d expect from a web browser on a streaming box. It works well with the remote for navigating around the web. It also seems to work well with Alexa. We’ll have a more in-depth review of it in the coming days and you can find out more at the Mozilla Support Page. Are you looking forward to using Firefox on Fire TV? If nothing else, it provides another option to watch YouTube if Google does, in fact, pull it on the first of the new year. Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below. No HLS support?? Comment Name * Email *
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