Closed Bug 1460903 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Provide in browser alternative to propriatery Flash plugin

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1451083

People

(Reporter: alexf_ba124, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 Build ID: 20180511100427 Steps to reproduce: Currently nothing as I use the currently supported Flash plugin from the Adobe site. However the Flash plugin will cease to be officialy supported at some future date, which is concern in respect of a number of legacy site I access (Flash mainly being used to replay Audio content). Actual results: Currently the "Flash" plugin works if activated, however as detailed above this is not a long term soloution. Expected results: What should happen is that the Firefox browser recognises that there is Flash (i.e SWF based content present), and provide a suitable in-browser alternative that can render basic Flash content without the need for an unsupported proprietary plugin. YouTube has already moved to HTML5 so supporting video formats is less of a priority.
Duping to the only chance of seeing Flash support in Firefox without the Flash plug-in: Bug 1451083 There won't be any built-in support for Flash: Bug 904346 Bug 1264552
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Component: Untriaged → Plug-ins
OS: Unspecified → All
Product: Firefox → Core
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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