On Saturday 17 December 2016 20:21:33 Walter Dnes wrote: > 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.
Sorry, I didn't mean that Pale moon "blindly follows" Firefox, I was primarily thinking of the progression upstream -> downstream (even as a fork, I expect that they'll want most of the low-level changes). -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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