On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Chris Campbell <campbecg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This probably isn't the best place to write this, but here it is anyway. > Flash is one of the most-used mediums these days. From humorous little > animations to full-fledged games, sites like Facebook have entire gaming > systems all using Flash code. > > I am one of the volunteer triagers and I have been working on > Mozilla-related bugs for several months now. These bugs include Firefox, > Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and Epiphany, among other packages. > > The two main Flash plugins most people use are Adobe's Flash Plugin and > SWFDEC. Our problems here are: Adobe's plug-in is binary only > (non-open-source), so when it breaks the using package (Firefox for > instance) there is no possibility of working on the break, since we have > no possibility of insight into the code. SWFDEC, according to the > package manager/triager Thomas K., is no longer supported upstream. > Therefor it's inclusion into Fedora will end with Fedora 12. It should > no longer be included in Fedora 13. > > There are other attempts at open-source Flash, but non are really usable > at the moment. There is gnash but I've found it uses a lot of cpu, at least on 64 bit. Peter -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
