On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 09:51:07PM +0100, Marc Joliet wrote
> On Saturday 17 December 2016 14:10:04 Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   A note; the developers have stated in the Pale Moon forum that they're
> > working on getting rid of gstreamer, and having Pale Moon talk directly
> > to ffmpeg and libav.  This gets rid of one layer of middleware, and the
> > associated security problems.
> 
> FWIW, that's most likely because Firefox did that a few releases
> ago (I unset the gstreamer USE flag with 44.0, and AFAIK gstreamer
> support was completely removed with 46.0).

  Not "because Firefox did that", but because it's a good idea.  Yes,
Firefox sometimes makes the right choice.  While Pale Moon does not
blindly follow Firefox (e.g. Australis), gstreamer is a pain and a
security problem.  First Pale Moon had to migrate from gstreamer 0.10.x
(inherited from Firefox code) to gstreamer 1.x.  And now they have to
blacklist certain gstreamer plugins.  Enough already.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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