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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.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by quadrox on Thursday February 19 2015, @08:28AM
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
Security?
They HAVE to be better than Adobe...No?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Dunbal on Thursday February 19 2015, @01:35PM
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
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.