Idea #7209: On the fly-switching between gnash and macromedia flash

Written by moderatelymodest the 18 Apr 08 at 12:50. Category: Multimedia.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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A way to switch easily between gnash and macromedia flash in Firefox would be great. In this way you could use the gnash plugin until you hit some flash that doesn't work and only then resort to using the proprietary plugin. This should boost gnash usage and hopefully promote development as well.

Maybe this could be implemented as a Fx addon or something, I'm not too well versed with the technical details.

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bogdan_5844 wrote on the 18 Apr 08 at 20:45

Sounds great to me,tough it could be quite hard to implement :-??

balleyne wrote on the 19 Aug 08 at 11:49

FF plugin would be sweet! Though, I think you can do this from the command line as it is with `sudo update-alternatives --config xulrunner-addons-flashplugin`.

Auzy wrote on the 19 Aug 08 at 13:36

What we need is a "default plugin" manager, so we can select the default plugin for an object type.

Either way though, we shouldn't be relying on gnash to fix the flash issue. They will never catch up, we will always be behind, and it will always be a shi^e user experience. You can have 3000 programmers working on gnash, but either way, when flash 11 gets released, it wont be supported from launch date. Because Adobe wont go and release the file format specs beforehand just for gnash.

We have to focus on SVG/AJAX/javascript hybrid technologies to replace flash, and eliminate the need for plugins, for basic animations. That eliminates the need for a plugin, and helps improve the browsers (instead of wasting time optimising for gnash, SVG could be optimised on firefox).

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