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On Saturday 17 December 2016 20:21:33 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 09:51:07PM +0100, Marc Joliet wrote |
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> > On Saturday 17 December 2016 14:10:04 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > > A note; the developers have stated in the Pale Moon forum that they're |
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> > > |
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> > > working on getting rid of gstreamer, and having Pale Moon talk directly |
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> > > to ffmpeg and libav. This gets rid of one layer of middleware, and the |
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> > > associated security problems. |
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> > FWIW, that's most likely because Firefox did that a few releases |
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> > ago (I unset the gstreamer USE flag with 44.0, and AFAIK gstreamer |
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> > support was completely removed with 46.0). |
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> Not "because Firefox did that", but because it's a good idea. Yes, |
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> Firefox sometimes makes the right choice. While Pale Moon does not |
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> blindly follow Firefox (e.g. Australis), gstreamer is a pain and a |
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> security problem. First Pale Moon had to migrate from gstreamer 0.10.x |
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> (inherited from Firefox code) to gstreamer 1.x. And now they have to |
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> blacklist certain gstreamer plugins. Enough already. |
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Sorry, I didn't mean that Pale moon "blindly follows" Firefox, I was primarily |
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thinking of the progression upstream -> downstream (even as a fork, I expect |
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that they'll want most of the low-level changes). |
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Marc Joliet |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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