(Neowin.net) Shumway: Mozilla wants to virtualize Flash

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Originally Posted by Neowin.net

Mozilla wants to “virtualize” Flash technology, making rich Internet contents available to users without the need to install additional (and often flawed) plug-ins inside the browser. The “virtual machine” designed to achieve such a feat is called Shumway, a new open source project officially backed by the Firefox foundation.

Hosted on the open source software repository GitHub, Shumway is described as “an HTML5 technology experiment that explores building a faithful and efficient renderer for the SWF file format without native code assistance”. Originally meant as an acronym for Shockwave Flash, SWF is the default extension for multimedia/interactive files interpreted by the Adobe Flash..

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You can view live demo examples using Shumway. More adventurous users can download a Firefox beta build and install the test extension to preview SWF content on the web using Shumway. Please be aware that Shumway is very experimental, is missing features, contains many defects, and is evolving rapidly.

https://blog.mozilla.org/research/20...ntime-project/

-http://mozilla.github.com/shumway/extension/firefox/shumway.xpi-