[oi-dev] FF 43b6 integration

Andreas Wacknitz A.Wacknitz at gmx.de
Thu Nov 26 19:37:19 UTC 2015



Am 26.11.15 um 20:33 schrieb Alexander Pyhalov:
> Hello.
> I'd like to ask for your opinions. Thanks to Martin we have new FF 
> version 
> (https://github.com/pyhalov/oi-userland/tree/firefox/components/firefox).
>
> There is one issue with new version:
> - first of all, plugin wrapper sometimes crashes with Adobe Flash 
> Player 10, it's not random, it crashes on some specific applications 
> and operations,
> and it's a regression.
>
> However, it's much more recent and has a lot of security fixes 
> compared to our FF. Also a lot of sites require fresh FF. Google docs 
> started complaining
> about our FF version. I've tested icedtea plugin and it works with new 
> FF. Also Adobe Flash player 10 works with a lot of flash applications.
> Shumway is supported by new FF, but it's not ideal, a lot of sites are 
> not supported. BTW, I've seen that several sites switched from flash 
> to HTML5
> players with new FF.
>
> So, the question is, should we update default OI Hipster FF to this 
> version? I'd say yes. What do you think?
>
+1 for new FF in Hipster.
I don't care that much about Flash. I only miss it sometimes when 
youtube doesn't work. Nevertheless I don't use Flash with oi's actual FF 
either.

Regards
Andreas





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