Closed Bug 1513287 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

determine whether/what we need to support plugins (i.e. Flash) in aarch64 windows

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement, P2)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Platform:
ARM64
Windows
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: froydnj, Assigned: chuck)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

This issue came up at the arm64 meeting last week in Orlando. Edge supports Flash, according to light testing, so we probably should too. Assuming that we *do* decide to support Flash, it seems unlikely that Adobe will provide a version of Flash that's native to arm64, so we're probably going to wind up somehow supporting the 32-bit version. We may have supported something like this on OS X in days of yore, so ideally that code is still laying around somewhere. Chuck, I believe you own the decision on supporting Flash from the product side, and if we need Flash support, we can determine who owns that work from engineering?
Flags: needinfo?(charmston)
Self-assigning this; I'll be working with the Flash team to get a decision made over the next week or so
Assignee: nobody → charmston
Flags: needinfo?(charmston)
Oh, we also might need to support the x86 Java plugin, if that's still a thing.
(In reply to Nathan Froyd [:froydnj] from comment #2) > Oh, we also might need to support the x86 Java plugin, if that's still a > thing. I think this is a bad idea. I hope we;re not considering this. Java never fully supported OOPP. We ripped support out ages ago.
status-firefox66: affected → ---
Priority: -- → P2
(In reply to Jim Mathies [:jimm] from comment #4) > (In reply to Nathan Froyd [:froydnj] from comment #2) > > Oh, we also might need to support the x86 Java plugin, if that's still a > > thing. > > I think this is a bad idea. I hope we;re not considering this. Java never > fully supported OOPP. We ripped support out ages ago. I think that was Asa's point of posting the plugins roadmap. If I'm reading that right, Flash is the only plugin we support.
Decision: we won't be supporting Flash.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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