Nailed It, is right. In the month where Adobe is announcing they are discontinuing Android Flash development, Mozilla is going the opposite and has implemented Flash and recent improvements into the latest Native Android Firefox project. Since Firefox’s for Android inception back in March 2010, the top request and comment is “We want Flash, We Want Flash!” Why people want that buggy plugin still floors me today, but Mozilla’s heard you loud and clear. Brad Lassey, Doug Turner, James Wilcox and team have taken creative approaches and have finally nailed down a version on Native Firefox that is performing tremendously well so far. Yes, there are still hiccups and work to be done, but lets pause for a second and applause our brave warriors in a nightly build worth downloading.
So take out your Android phone and your beloved Flash plugin, and take today’s nightly build for a spin. With the combination of significant panning/zooming improvements from my last post, plus a series of awesomebar and tab UI changes, Firefox is looking primer and primer each day.
As always, help us test and file bugs. That’s the best way to give us the feedback you care about.
Grab the latest Nightly build HERE. (remember to check “unknown sources”)
November 17, 2011 at 11:24 am
This post isn’t very well written. What are you trying to say? Mozilla has just implemented Flash support within it’s non-XUL Android version of Fennec? Is this now not only a massive backwards step away from HTML5 and the open web, but also redundant?
What a very confusing post.
November 17, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Scrolling is so fast! This is exciting.
November 17, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Nice to hear
November 17, 2011 at 11:08 pm
I’m running the latest nightly (11.0a1), and I don’t have the option to enable Flash, yet I have Flash on my phone. How do I enable it in FF?
November 18, 2011 at 12:12 am
I figured it out!!! I didn’t have Flash enabled on the default browser. Here is what I did (the whole story). First of all I’m using a Galaxy S II (not sure if that matters). I didn’t have Flash enabled on the default browser, and I also had the stable version of FF, FF beta, along with the Nightly, so the first thing I did was a web search, and only one post I found in countless results directed users who have the beta version to uninstall that first. Well not wanting to spend all day trying I uninstalled the stable, beta, and nightly. Then I reinstalled nightly only. No Flash. Hmmm. I went on a hunch, and opened the stock browser not knowing if that mattered if Flash needed to be enabled, and I didn’t know if I had it enabled, so I checked, and nope, it wasn’t enabled. I enabled Flash, reopened FF nightly, and now all websites with video show the flash player by default. So in closing there is no option to enable Flash in Firefox. You just need it enable in the default browser first. Oh and of course you need Flash Player from the Market first, but that should be a given. I hope this saves someone time on trying to figure it out.
Oh, and just for those who would like to know, it runs very well, and very stable in nightly 11.0a1. I’m happy enough that I made Nightly my default. Enjoy.
November 18, 2011 at 2:51 am
applause our brave warriors?? Do you mean applaud?
November 18, 2011 at 11:45 pm
YES!!! Flash in Firefox Mobile!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes!!! And working just fine!!!
I followed BobbyPhoenix’s procedure, that is: I checked the stock browser for flash and it was enabled. Then I uninstalled Beta. I didn’t have Stable installed and I wanted to try without uninstalling Aurora and Fennec. It worked!
Many thanks for such clear steps BobbyPhoenix!!!