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No more Flash for Firefox on LinuxNo more Flash for Firefox on LinuxPosted Feb 22, 2012 15:22 UTC (Wed) by Ford_Prefect (subscriber, #36934)In reply to: No more Flash for Firefox on Linux by wonder Parent article: No more Flash for Firefox on Linux
Someone pointed me to this -- https://wiki.mozilla.org/NPAPI:Pepper
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No more Flash for Firefox on Linux Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:28 UTC (Wed) by kmike (guest, #5260) [Link]
"Mozilla is not interested in or working on Pepper at this time."
I would think they'd be interested on extending and improving the (almost decade old) NPAPI interface. Oh well.
No more Flash for Firefox on Linux Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:34 UTC (Wed) by oliwarner (subscriber, #81320) [Link]
That page (and its content) is from almost a year ago.
Hopefully Adobe's move will put more emphasis on the importance of a single cross-platform, cross-browser plugin architecture, and Mozilla will change their minds.
No more Flash for Firefox on Linux Posted Feb 22, 2012 17:20 UTC (Wed) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715) [Link]
No more Flash for Firefox on Linux Posted Feb 23, 2012 5:22 UTC (Thu) by geuder (subscriber, #62854) [Link]
Looks like both Adobe and Mozilla agree: Why putting resources for something with a somewhat questionable future on a marginal platform like desktop Linux. After all the announcement says "on Linux". So NPAPI and thereby FF seem to be supported by Adobe on Windows even in the future.
Whether Flash really loses to HTML5 and how fast remains to be seen. But that desktop Linux drastically would gain market share seems even less likely (unfortunately).
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