Angry Birds for Chrome Unleashes Tens of New Levels - That You Can Play in Firefox

Google is boasting about the brand new Angry Birds for Chrome. Well, it's not exactly new, it's the same old HTML5 version of Angry Birds that Rovio unveiled a year ago, but it's gotten some new levels in time for the holidays.

"Starting today, you can play a new episode of your favorite game, with 42 exciting levels. And if you are handy with the slingshot, you’ll also be able to find a few new hidden Chrome dimension levels," Google wrote on its Chrome blog.

"In addition, you can check out the first of an additional set of 25 holiday-themed Angry Birds levels. A different level will be unlocked every day until December 25th. There are also three Chrome-exclusive holiday levels that you can unlock with a secret password," it added.

This is surely great news for any Angry Birds fan out there who prefers a larger screen and a mouse to send those green pigs into oblivion. 42 new levels should keep them occupied for at least a few more months.

But that's not all, there are also 25 holiday themed levels, aka there's snow in them.

Poor Firefox users are probably feeling rather annoyed that Chrome fans get to play the wonderful new levels while they're left out in the cold and may even consider switching sides in the browser wars.

Well, not quite, while the Google Chrome logo even shows up in the game's loading screen and Google has spent quite a lot of time promoting the game and linking it to Chrome, Angry Birds for Chrome is just a web page which is accessible to, you guessed it, web browsers.

Meaning that you can point Firefox to chrome.angrybirds.com and enjoy the game just like any Chrome users. And if you've bookmarked it you'll even get most of the benefits of installing the Angry Birds 'app' in Chrome.