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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:Nightlies (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.

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

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