The EME DRM specification was authored by Microsoft, Google, and Netflix. Now that the other major browsers like Chrome, Edge, IE, and Safari implement EME and it is used by major content providers like Netflix, Amazon, HBO, and Canal+, Mozilla is backed into a corner.<p>Not that long ago, Mozilla tried to challenge H.264 on the Web. The Chrome team agreed to drop H.264 too, but they didn&#x27;t keep their word and, without a public explanation, kept supporting H.264. When cat videos encoded in H.264 don&#x27;t work in Firefox but work in Chrome, users switch to Chrome and may never come back. And now when video services people pay money for work in Chrome but not Firefox, users switch to Chrome and, again, may never come back.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2011&#x2F;01&#x2F;html-video-codec-support-in...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2093219" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2093219</a>