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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) by magamo on Thursday February 19 2015, @01:47PM

    by magamo (3037) on Thursday February 19 2015, @01:47PM (#146946)

    Shumway appears to work with all the available noscript/flashblock extensions already out there. My big personal issue with it, is that it still allows for no newer flash content than 11.2, just like the official Linux Adobe Flash player. Mostly interested in using it with VMWare's web client, which is foolishly written in ActionScript.