Mozilla Flash alternative Shumway

**BigCityCat** · February 15th, 2013

Shumway is a Flash alternative for Firefox being developed by Mozilla. I have heard some things about it but there hasn't been a lot of noise about it lately. What I found interesting is that there is a plugin for it and it works pretty well. I disabled flash in my browser and Shumway is getting the job done. I think you have to be using a Firefox version higher than 18. It's the best flash replacement I have seen so far. At least for Firefox anyway.

You can get the extension here.

http://mozilla.github.com/shumway/

**kurt18947** · February 15th, 2013

I just installed it, thanks. I tried this site:

http://www.thewoodwhisperer.com/videos/

and it seems pretty good.

Then there's this:

http://www.nfl.com/videos/st-louis-r...-option-for-us

which doesn't play at all. Of course that may be because of how the web site is coded - adobe acrobat or not at all sort of thing.

Same here:

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/13...better?cc=5901

It appears Shumway has potential but I don't know what will be involved to get it recognized and functioning with big media type sites.

**evilsoup** · February 15th, 2013

Does it work on Youtube / Vimeo / other flash-based video streaming websites?

WIll probably try it out later anyway

**BigCityCat** · February 15th, 2013

been using it here
http://www.ussoccer.com/
and here
http://www.mlssoccer.com/

I think it only plays html5 on youtube but I'm not sure. It's hit or miss but when it works it works well.

**Lucradia** · February 16th, 2013

Originally Posted by evilsoup

Does it work on Youtube / Vimeo / other flash-based video streaming websites?

WIll probably try it out later anyway

Aw, was hoping I could use it on videos like these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLVQK3sgv8g

Since they require flash due to monetized.

**MadmanRB** · February 16th, 2013

Youtube partially works, in the future one can imagine it will work a little better though.

**pqwoerituytrueiwoq** · February 16th, 2013

does it utilize the gpu for video? how about flash games? (cause i want better than flash)

**Lucradia** · February 16th, 2013

Originally Posted by pqwoerituytrueiwoq

does it utilize the gpu for video? how about flash games? (cause i want better than flash)

Just look at hrwiki's logo while you have shumway installed:

http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

It'll be a jumbled mess. It's interactive, if that means anything to you. Half the time it's just gray.