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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by serge2k on Friday September 30, 2016 @04:08PM (#12614959)
I don't particularly like the idea of mozilla bringing in this from chrome just to cut costs.

Just feels like a step towards chrome further dominating.

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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by petecox on Friday September 30, 2016 @08:58PM (#12616092)
They're deprecating XUL and the NPAPI plugin architecture so that they can move to servo relatively legacy free.

Importing Chrome's SWF and PDF is a way to stress test their new plugin implementation.

Not maintaining pdf.js seems a budgeting decision but Flash is restoring functionality to Linux via a cross-browser plugin, which Adobe had abandoned for Chrome only.

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