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Re:Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs by sho_hn on Monday March 12, 2012 @12:13PM (#3694096)
But the Windows problems aren't the only justifications they published back then. In the second linked post O'Callahan writes:

"It pushes the software freedom issues from the browser (where we have leverage to possibly change the codec situation) to the platform (where there is no such leverage). You still can't have a completely free software Web client stack."

Given that it strikes me as ironic that Mozilla is now building a platform - i.e. a platform where they definitely have leverage - that is going to support H.264.

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Re:Firefox will support H264 and MP3 decoding with OS codecs by gcp on Monday March 12, 2012 @12:31PM (#3694174)
They're giving the mostly-dead WebM the coup de grace in order to give the newborn B2G a chance to succeed.

That isn't irony. It's at worst pragmatism, and at best not being stupid to continue a lost fight.

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