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When will Mozilla embrace HTML5?

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Google Chrome is dumping Adobe Flash Player and going to HTML5 by the end of the year. Dumping Adobe Flash should greatly upgrade the speed of Mozilla. Against Chrome, Mozilla can use every advantage.

Google Chrome is dumping Adobe Flash Player and going to HTML5 by the end of the year. Dumping Adobe Flash should greatly upgrade the speed of Mozilla. Against Chrome, Mozilla can use every advantage.

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hi, mozilla is already embracing html5 and pushing it where possible. please also refer to this recent blog post: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/07/20/reducing-adobe-flash-usage-in-firefox/

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Note for instance YouTube plays videos in HTML5 by default. See also their test page