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Re:Microsoft backs H.264. by wzdd on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @10:14AM (#2170488)
I'm not sure why Firefox has to support H.264 on all its platforms, but in this case it can, through Flash.

Even if it couldn't, why would it be a bad thing for Firefox to support OS-supplied codecs on OS X and Windows, and a set of built-in codecs, such as WebM, on Linux?

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Re:Microsoft backs H.264. by nitrogen on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @11:39AM (#2170851)
OS codecs are an unquantifiable security risk, since their source code is not available to Mozilla.
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