Re: What's the long term plan with Click-to-play and Flash?

Chris Peterson <[email protected]> Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:53:21 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.plugins
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/2/14, 7:30 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
>> a. Advertisers are the biggest current reason for more than 1 flash
>> plugin on a page.
>
> This is undoubtedly true.

Firefox loading many instances of Flash for banner ads is one of the 
primary motivations for Shumway, Mozilla's JS-based Flash player. Banner 
ads don't need as many advanced features of Flash because the ads are 
targetted at users with older versions of Flash.

chris