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

posted by n1 on Thursday February 19 2015, @04:57AM   
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.

• Re:GNU Gnash Re:GNU Gnash (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?

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• Re:GNU Gnash (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?

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