No more Flash for Firefox on Linux [LWN.net]

No more Flash for Firefox on Linux

Posted Feb 22, 2012 15:28 UTC (Wed) by kmike (guest, #5260)
In reply to: No more Flash for Firefox on Linux by Ford_Prefect
Parent article: No more Flash for Firefox on Linux

"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.

(Log in to post comments)

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]

And this:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729481#c3 is from well today ;)

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).