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No more Flash for Firefox on LinuxNo more Flash for Firefox on LinuxPosted Feb 22, 2012 16:01 UTC (Wed) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976)Parent article: No more Flash for Firefox on Linux
A bit more context:
- a Mozilla engineer on Pepper (2010): https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/plugin-futures/2010-Ap...
Let's hope that 5 years after 11.2 is released (when it reaches its end of life), Flash will be less relevant.
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No more Flash for Firefox on Linux Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:46 UTC (Wed) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]
It's already less relevant.
http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/07/as-adobe-flash-fades-from-m...
Adobe's move is an effect, not a cause. They're going the way of RealAudio and they know it, that's why they've stopped throwing good engineering effort after bad.
No more Flash for Firefox on Linux Posted Feb 22, 2012 19:19 UTC (Wed) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]
Indeed, and none too soon. Flash has always been an unpleasant proprietary stain on our mostly-open web (and far too many supposedly Free Software developers went along with that by making no effort to use, test or fix the free alternatives).
Helping kill it off is one the few good things Apple ever did for us.
It'll never be entirely gone, but I'd like to think that in 5 years time we can put the embarassing flash period behind us (assuming we can still get consumer hardware to run free code on, and haven't been ARM-UEFI'd to death instead).
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