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No more Flash for Firefox on LinuxNo more Flash for Firefox on LinuxPosted Feb 22, 2012 16:14 UTC (Wed) by pataphysician (guest, #73773)In reply to: No more Flash for Firefox on Linux by moltonel Parent article: No more Flash for Firefox on Linux
Basically, for example Microsoft is not going to use Flash for their Metro version of their browser in Windows 8. So it seems like only Google has any interest in Flash, out of the Big three of MS, Apple, Google.
Abobe realizes browser flash is dying, and need to put all their developers on Air in a last ditch effort to save some of their development market in this area. So they have slashed Flash development effort.
I think Google now has the only mobile platform that Adobe updated to version 11 with Android. I think Google sees value in being the somewhat exclusive domain of having flash, and Adobe feels they can't support a full development across all platforms, especially when some platforms seem hostile to it's presence, so they are also interested in giving Google as much exclusivity as possible.
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No more Flash for Firefox on Linux Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:33 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Which is pretty hilarious because Google is the major backer for Vp8 and a major one for various HTML5 initiatives.
I guess we can expect that Vp8 will work in Flash in future versions.
No more Flash for Firefox on Linux Posted Feb 22, 2012 17:00 UTC (Wed) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]
VP8 supposedly already works in Flash... or was that just VP6?
No more Flash for Firefox on Linux Posted Feb 22, 2012 21:00 UTC (Wed) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715) [Link]
Just VP6 ... they promised vp8 / webm support but without any ETA and still have not implemented it.
No more Flash for Firefox on Linux Posted Feb 22, 2012 23:15 UTC (Wed) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]
Google is also the developers of NaCl and Dart. They have no problems with pushing Chrome-only technologies which technically anyone can implement but which actually nobody will.
No more Flash for Firefox on Linux Posted Feb 23, 2012 23:37 UTC (Thu) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]
Agreed in terms of the horrible Active-X like NaCl, however SPDY and NPN are good IMHO, and have been implemented as a opt-in in Firefox 13. (server support for SPDY on the other hand is quite lagging--I've only seen ruby eventmachine, and an announcement that nginx support is in development)
No more Flash for Firefox on Linux Posted Feb 23, 2012 19:03 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]
> Which is pretty hilarious because Google is the major backer for Vp8 and a
> major one for various HTML5 initiatives.
Let's not forget that back when the HTML5 initiative started, both Google and Apple were against Flash. It was only later that Google realized they can use Flash support on Android as a competitive advantage against iPhone.
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