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Mozilla's Flash-killer 'Shumway' Appears in Firefox Nightlies

posted by n1 on Thursday February 19 2015, @04:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the shumway-shumhow-adobe-is-going-down dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes with an article from The Register :

In November 2012 the Mozilla Foundation announced “Project Shumway”, an effort to create a “web-native runtime implementation of the SWF file format.”

Two-and-a-bit years, and a colossal number of Flash bugs later, Shumway has achieved an important milestone by appearing in a Firefox nightly, a step that suggests it's getting closer to inclusion in the browser.

Shumway's been available as a plugin for some time, and appears entirely capable of handling the SWF files.

Few average users know of Shumway's existence, never mind seek it out. So the inclusion of the software in Firefox's nightlies will give it greater exposure. For now the code can only play certain videos hosted on Amazon.com, but developers intend to expand the list of sites from which Shumway will play SWF files.

 
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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @05:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @05:35AM (#146858)
    Does TFT suggest that Firefox has recurring nightmares featuring Mozilla's Flash-killer 'Shumway'?
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @06:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @06:46AM (#146872)

    I'll assume you're trying for cute|witty and aren't simply uninformed.

    For those who don't recognize the term:
    Some software development projects have a new pre-release version at the end of each work day and they make that available to whomever wants to give it a try.

    You can get bleeding-edge features with a "nightly", but expect breakage and/or incompleteness.

    Shumway is an effort to make the Adobe Flash Media Player obsolete.
    It is in a category with Gnash, Lightspark, and PepperFlash.

    -- gewg_

    • (Score: 5, Interesting) by quadrox on Thursday February 19 2015, @08:28AM

      by quadrox (315) on Thursday February 19 2015, @08:28AM (#146892)

      Well, isn't it just replacing the official flash plugin with a different flash plugin? What's the point of that, especially now that flash is being abandonded in more and more places?

      Ok, so apparently it doesn't use native code, which is an improvement security wise, but a drawback performance wise.

      • (Score: 2) by nightsky30 on Thursday February 19 2015, @01:17PM

        by nightsky30 (1818) on Thursday February 19 2015, @01:17PM (#146941)

        Security?

        They HAVE to be better than Adobe...No?

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by Dunbal on Thursday February 19 2015, @01:35PM

          by Dunbal (3515) on Thursday February 19 2015, @01:35PM (#146942)

          They would have to try very hard in order to be worse.

          • (Score: 3, Funny) by Foobar Bazbot on Thursday February 19 2015, @05:48PM

            by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Thursday February 19 2015, @05:48PM (#147034) Journal

            They would have to try very hard in order to be worse.

            And Firefox is clearly too busy degrading the UI to put that kind of effort into insecurity.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @12:23PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @12:23PM (#146930)

      Shumway is an effort to make the Adobe Flash Media Player obsolete.

      Oh, nooo! How I'm gonna save the offline pr0n SWF games without the standalone Flash player?

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday February 19 2015, @12:29PM

      by c0lo (156) on Thursday February 19 2015, @12:29PM (#146932) Journal

      Shumway is an effort to make the Adobe Flash Media Player obsolete.
      It is in a category with Gnash, Lightspark, and PepperFlash.

      Is Adobe paying this effort? Because, see, Adobe didn't make any money from the Player - having someone take the maintenance burden would be a boon for them: they'll continue to cash on the composer/designer or whatever they call the development edition of Flash.

      --
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0