Flash plugins

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Chris Campbell <campbecg at cox.net> 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