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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 Re:Nightlies (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?

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• Re:Nightlies Re:Nightlies (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.

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  • Re:Nightlies (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.

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