Mozilla has plans to codecs to use by default in Android are included. This is hardware acceleration possible. Until now, refused to browserbouwer this yet because the necessary licenses.
The intention of the browserbouwer to in the in Firefox, applied to the Gecko engine, now integrated codecs to use, it is suggested in a newsgroup for Mozilla developers. As the first platforms would be Mozilla’s mobile operating system, B2G, and Android qualify. According to Mozilla is in both mobile operating systems already have a number of popular codecs included.
With the adaptation of the Gecko engine, would using Firefox on both platforms easily handle mediafiles that are compressed with a proprietary codec, such as mp3 and h264 files. The Gecko engine uses the codecs to load via its own mpapi-platform, a plug-in framework that codecs, among other checks for compatibility issues.
Mozilla states that the license-free codecs, such as ogg and webm, continues to promote, but the Firefox developer claims it has no problem with the use of licensed codecs that are already in an operating system are integrated. Until now adhered to a Mozilla have a reluctant attitude towards the use of codecs that require a license.