Experience Virtual Reality With Firefox 55

The net is about to get a lot more VR-friendly: Mozilla's Firefox 55, rolling out now, supports WebVR, which lets you experience VR content on the web with an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset.

"WebVR enables developers and artists to create web-based VR experiences y'all tin can browse to with Firefox," Mozilla product strategist Nick Nguyen writes in a blog post. "Whether you're a current Oculus Rift or HTC Vive possessor—or still deciding when you lot're going to accept the VR leap—Firefox tin can get you lot to your VR fix faster."

When yous find a game or app on the web that supports VR, just click the VR goggles icon on the page to experience it with your headset. Yous tin can use handset controllers, and move around in your physical infinite, to navigate and control these web-based VR experiences.

A number of developers have already been building content with WebVR, Nguyen writes. Head here to bank check out some Mozilla-recommended experiences, including the VR painting feel A Painter demoed in the video above. Many of the experiences on that site were made with A-Frame, Mozilla's WebVR content cosmos framework.

Google in February added WebVR support to Chrome and Microsoft did the aforementioned for its Edge browser in April.

Also in Firefox 55, Mozilla has "significantly reduced the time it takes to start Firefox when restoring tabs from a previous session," Nguyen says. So, if for some insane reason you need to restore a Firefox window with 1,691 tabs open, it will now have only xv seconds as opposed to well-nigh eight minutes.

Firefox likewise now lets you easily search many websites' search engines from the address bar. Just type your query, then click which search engine you desire to use. The default list of search engines includes Google, Amazon, Twitter, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, simply you tin customize this in settings.

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag'due south expert on fitness and smart home products. Teaching yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fettle trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela also tests smart abode devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.