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Re:HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla by mtrimpe on Thursday October 03, 2013 @04:44AM (#6487807)
Apart from the fact that until February this year it was impossible to keep PepperFlash disabled [1], we've so far had:

- Frequent crashes when acquiring video camera [2]

- Recorded sound being choppy and broken (still not fixed for Red5) [3]

- Audio delays and broken echo cancellation in Speex [4]

- Microphone sound levels not reported, breaking apps like ours which check if a microphone worked properly. (resolved together with [3])

- Sound stopping to record after a few minutes [5]

- Inability to give camera access on retina displays [6]

- Rushed fix for a click-jacking attack introduces horrible UX that gets into an unrecoverable state by default [7]

All in all I can personally confirm that Chrome has not been good for people doing video recording on the web.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150596 [2] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140831 [3] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136624 [4] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=144554 [4] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152314 [4] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140724 [5] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=168859 [6] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=177621 [7] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=155437

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Re:HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla by brokenparser on Thursday October 03, 2013 @02:46PM (#6491033)
Boy, am I glad these bugs were fixed around the time I wrote my publishers. Remind me to check all the relevant bug trackers before going full steam ahead with a rewrite, ha ha.
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