Flash, Silverlight and other addons for Firefox

[wcmarchese#AC]

So I know that there are supposed to ne add ons to FireFox mobile. Is there a time frame for this, as I would be interested in beta testing this for your team. I love the Android browser, but there are some glitches with Flash In Facebook games. And FireFox is the only browser, besides Opera Mini that can currently play Mafia Wars.

Please let me know.

WCM

 

[Matt Brubeck]

We don't know yet when Flash or other plugins will be supported in Firefox for Android.

 

[scottbomb]

So the world's second most popular browser doesn't support flash on the world's most popular smart-phone platform. Wow. Considering Apple doesn't support it on their iphones, I wonder if this has something to do with licensing at Adobe? If Adobe doesn't want to play ball, I would think the developers would ditch flash altogether. On the other hand, I wish Firefox was owned by a for-profit company as they would have a stronger incentive to fix their broken product. Why Apple leaves their product broken is a mystery to me but the same can be said for most of their business decisions.

 

[Matt Brubeck]

We're working on Flash support. The problems are technical, not legal. Flash for android uses non-standard APIs that are undocumented and are designed more for WebKit's architecture than Gecko's. Our work is still in development, but we are tracking the progress here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/Features/Plugins

The latest status update is here: http://dougt.org/wordpress/2011/05/npapi-on-android-status-update-2/