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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, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @06:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @06:12AM (#146866)

    Wasn't there a Flash-killer from the GNU Project that died as soon as the developers graduated? They went out into the real world and realized there's more money to be made from gay prostitution than software development? Bathroom-Stall-Man's OS-killer project is still limping along with a fresh generation of young naive idiots every few years, eh?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @06:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @06:52AM (#146874)

    gay prostitution

    Hey, that's... unspeakable rude. What about the equality and participation of women in ITC?

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @07:03AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @07:03AM (#146877)

      Lesbian is such a sexist word. Why can there be gay women but not lesbian men? Where's the queer equality?