Adobe Flash Player Source Code Open to Firefox

Are you looking for latest version of Flash Player for your browser? It’s available on [Adobe's web site].

It’s official now! Mozilla foundation will have access to the source code of the Flash Player. This will enable developers at Mozilla Foundation to come up with better handling model for Web 2.0 based applications in Firefox.

How will Flash source help Firefox?

Developers at Mozilla will incorporate ActionScript Virtual Machine from Flash source into their Firefox browser. ActionScript is believed to be faster and efficient than the JScript currently used. This is a part of the open source project called Tamarin which is aimed towards providing a faster, rich and unified scripting engine to web developers.

What is ActionScript

ActionScript is based on ECMAScript, an international standardized programming language for scripting. The current version of ActionScript 3.0 is well suited for developing rich Internet applications, capable of handling large datasets, object-oriented, reusable code makes a win-win situation for both Adobe and Mozilla Foundation.

In coming months, we can expect to see Firefox advancing by several steps and take an edge over all other browsers with ActionScript integration. Adobe, however, also wants Microsoft to incorporate the ActionScript into Internet Explorer but no official communication is released yet from Microsoft.

Found @ iTWire [via] Google News