You're implying a controversy here that simply does not exist. Firefox never had support for h.264 to drop in the first place, because the licensing model is (j

You're implying a controversy here that simply does not exist. Firefox never had support for h.264 to drop in the first place, because the licensing model is (justifiably) unacceptable to Mozilla. And Google is still entirely committed to WebM. It's just that dropping dropping h.264 from Chrome requires quite a bit of coordination to ensure that the vast majority of content remains accessible--particularly with regards to Google properties.