Re: Implementing Pepper since Google is dropping NPAPI for good

2013-09-24 Thread Robert O'Callahan
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Yuhong Bao wrote: > Brian Smith writes: > > Note in particular, this quote from that article: "Furthermore, Mozilla > > plans to block NPAPI plug-ins in December 2013." > > > > People are asking me about that on Twitter now. > Looks like it came from the original

Changes to tests build system integration (mostly xpcshell for now)

2013-09-24 Thread Gregory Szorc
Just landed in inbound and bound to stick sooner or later are some changes to how tests are integrated with the build system. * The per-directory xpcshell make targets have been removed. Use mach (preferred) or TEST_PATH=... make xpcshell-tests top-level make target. * xpcshell.ini files are

Re: Implementing Pepper since Google is dropping NPAPI for good

2013-09-24 Thread therealbrendaneich
On Monday, September 23, 2013 3:56:52 PM UTC-7, Brian Smith wrote: > Just to re-iterate: I am not saying we should/must do a Pepper Flash Player > in Firefox. I am not particularly for or against it. Get back off the fence :-P. We are not going to do Active G now, any more than we were going to d

Re: Implementing Pepper since Google is dropping NPAPI for good

2013-09-24 Thread Till Schneidereit
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On 2013-09-23 4:29 PM, Hubert Figuière wrote: > >> PS: I truly believe that we should drop plugin support all together, but >> that's not what I'm discussing here. >> > > I think if we think our options going forward are "implement PPAPI" an

Re: Implementing Pepper since Google is dropping NPAPI for good

2013-09-24 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 2013-09-23 4:29 PM, Hubert Figuière wrote: PS: I truly believe that we should drop plugin support all together, but that's not what I'm discussing here. I think if we think our options going forward are "implement PPAPI" and "dump plugins altogether", we should seriously consider both. Ha

Re: Implementing Pepper since Google is dropping NPAPI for good

2013-09-24 Thread Yuhong Bao
Brian Smith writes: > Note in particular, this quote from that article: "Furthermore, Mozilla > plans to block NPAPI plug-ins in December 2013." > > People are asking me about that on Twitter now. Looks like it came from the original source: http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-

Re: nsIDownloadManager replaced by Downloads.jsm

2013-09-24 Thread andy . portmen
On Saturday, August 3, 2013 8:21:57 AM UTC-4, Paolo Amadini wrote: > Hello, > > > > if you are maintaining an add-on or a Mozilla product that interacts > > with downloads, you should look into updating your code to use the new > > Downloads.jsm module instead of nsIDownloadManager as soon as

Re: Implementing Pepper since Google is dropping NPAPI for good

2013-09-24 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Brian Smith wrote: > I am making the assumption for now that Flash is the main thing we don't > have a solution for. In the present tense, we have neither Pepper nor Shumway shipping. Considering what we'll have in the future, do you have a reason to believe Shumw