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No more Flash for Firefox on Linux

No more Flash for Firefox on Linux

Posted Feb 22, 2012 16:33 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: No more Flash for Firefox on Linux by pataphysician
Parent article: No more Flash for Firefox on Linux

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.


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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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