Based on the existing system requirements Firefox already has a hard minimum requirement of GTK+ 2.10 which was released in 2006 (I think), and it looks like it has been this way since Firefox 3. (see bug 418885 complaining about this, which someone should probably close out at this point) It looks like Ubuntu 6.06 LTS doesn't meet this, so 8.04 LTS looks like our current minimum Ubuntu LTS version. (please do correct me if I'm wrong here) That had gstreamer 0.10.18, which looks to have playbin2 (I think).
My guess is that if gstreamer support 0.10.18 were added, and you could successfully run Firefox under Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (and thus probably other distros of that time), then gstreamer could be turned on by default without practically increasing any minimum system requirements beyond requiring users of some KDE-based distros to install gstreamer (which is often needed in current distros anyway). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1051559 Title: Build Firefox with GStreamer support Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “iceweasel” package in Debian: New Status in “firefox” package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: Building Firefox with GStreamer support would provide support for a lot of websites that use h264. To build Firefox with GStreamer support you should use the "--enable-gstreamer" option. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1051559/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
