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Are the automaticly installed plugins by Firefox (Widevin CDM by Google and OPENH264 Video Codec by Cisco)

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I know the plugins aren't free (patent issues and stuff), but are they open source and were checked by the mozilla team?

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I know the plugins aren't free (patent issues and stuff), but are they open source and were checked by the mozilla team? Thanks
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TyDraniu
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Widevine is closed-source, but I'm not sure, why mozilla should check it?

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TyDraniu said
Widevine is closed-source, but I'm not sure, why mozilla should check it?

Because Firefox is supposed to be open-source, but apparently it contains closed-source plugins by default.

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It was discussed 10 years ago. You can still download a non-DRM version, if you prefer it.