[Hendrix] NEEDS flash support

[hendrix-no-replyatmozilladotorg]

Name:
Product: Firefox (Mobile)
Summary: NEEDS flash support

Comments:
Android 2.2 and higher supports flash. Built in browsers from phone
manufacturers support flash. Firefox for Android does not support flash
even though Adobe Flash 10.2 is on the phone. If you want people to use
Firefox on any Android device, you NEED to support flash. Otherwise,
they will uninstall it as soon as they realize it doesn't support flash
just as I did.

Browser Details: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15
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[Mitch Z]

I agree. And they are aware of this to some extent. They say they are
working on it, but that it's not a priority of theirs. But this is
bad, it should literally be their top priority. Because Flash is just
so prevalent on the internet now, and even though HTML5 is better and
is the future, it's no reason to forget about Flash. There is tons of
Flash content that will continue to exist on the internet that people
want to access. Especially online game sites like Kongregate or
Newgrounds, are effectively killed without flash support. And you
can't reasonably expect every creator of flash content to just convert
everything they've submitted into html5.

Even if the flash solution is poorly performing as you guys say, it's
still a lot better than NOTHING, at least until you can achieve this
desired performance level you speak of. People can always disable it
if they don't want it, or you can make it a feature that needs to be
enabled manually. You'd think by this time you guys would at least
have a public test build with Flash support available on one of your
repositories. You're punishing the users who have lovingly supported
Mozilla for ages. It's sad to see this happening, Firefox would be
doing amazingly well on Android if it just had Flash support, since
the UI is so great.

Although you guys could work on improving memory consumption and
startup speed... Dolphin browser starts up in less than a second,
Firefox takes a few seconds :S