Users of the Firefox web browser on Windows can now dump Adobe Flash and still watch H.264-encoded videos online. Fresh overnight builds of Firefox 20 will now play footage found on HTML5 websites, such as YouTube and Vimeo, that use the video codec – without the need for Adobe’s oft-criticised plugin, which also supports H.264. The Mozilla Foundation, which makes Firefox, slipped support for the popular video compression standard into beta-test versions of its browser by drilling into Microsoft’s Windows Media Foundation, which does the actual H.264 video decoding. Mozilla is adverse to proprietary codecs because…Read more at The Register
