HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla

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Post by robin_reala » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 8:33 AM UTC

HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla
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Re: HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla

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Post by gkoberger » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 8:52 AM UTC

Very cool. Here's some more demos: http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/

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Post by spongle » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 9:00 AM UTC

Great effort but I really don't want this.

I've lived without Flash for a year now and all is good. We just need to break the crack addiction!

Re: HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla

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Post by OliC » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 9:03 AM UTC

Why didn't this come out of Adobe a year ago?

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Post by eksith » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 9:11 AM UTC

This is great news. Now if only Mozilla made it easy to remove plugins just as other addons[1], we'll be all set.

[1] At present, you'll need to go to [your install folder]\extensions or check their path.

To do this, go to about:config and set 'plugin.expose_full_path' to 'true'. Now go to about:plugins where you'll see the full install path. Go to these and delete the .dll

Edit: Globally installed plugins, may affect other browsers installed on your machine. Renaming is probably safer in case you need to roll back.

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Post by aktau » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 9:11 AM UTC

In something I'm building, we have to play all kinds of clips. Some of the more "legacy" ones are unfortunately in flash. We can't get rid of them for the next few years and nobody is going to redo them in something else. So this might a really good thing to be able to get rid of the flash plugin but keep supporting those files. Thanks mozilla!

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Post by ethana » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 9:12 AM UTC

What black magic is this? I wonder what the performance hits will be like though.

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Post by maheart » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 9:20 AM UTC

OliC wrote: post #4

Why didn't this come out of Adobe a year ago?

Why would Adobe do something like this? It costs them money and it doesn't improve their position (and IMO, their goals) at all.

Re: HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla

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Post by Sami_Lehtinen » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 9:21 AM UTC

Why not to convert flash stuff to html5 directly? Using runtime is just extra overhead.

Re: HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla

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Post by nl » Wed, Oct 02, 2013, 9:26 AM UTC

Is there a reason this has to be an extension?

What is stopping it from being hosted on a webpage, which then loads flash files from URLs?

(Background: I need a way to let thousands of flash-based educational resources be usable on an iPad)