Flash

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What?

The Adobe Flash Player is commonly used on the web for videos, animations, games, banner ads, and "utility" functions not available in standard HTML+JS (like Gmail's file uploader and GitHub's clipboard button).

Mozilla is working on a number of projects to reduce the use of browser plugins like Flash.

Why?

Plugins can be responsible for security bugs and instability, and can create a poor user experience for Firefox users. Moving this functionality to open standards can help alleviate these problems across many platforms.

How?

Who?

Many people are involved. Here are contacts for different project areas:

  • Planning
    • Benjamin Smedberg <bsmedberg>
    • Sheila Mooney <smooney>
    • Chris Peterson <cpeterson>
  • MSE/EME
    • Anthony Jones <ajones>
    • Chris Pearce <cpearce>
  • Full-screen UX
    • Jet Villegas <jet>
  • Shumway
    • Till Schneidereit <tschneidereit>
    • Michael Bebenita <mbebenita>
  • Sandboxing
    • Bob Owen <bowen>
    • Jed Davis <jld>
    • Brad Lassey <blassey>
  • Emscripten/asm.js
    • Alon Zakai <azakai>
    • Luke Wagner <luke>
  • RTMP.js
    • Yury Delendik <ydelendik>

Where?

When?

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