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
