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I opened this page in Chrome and a file 2048.cdf got automatically downloaded. Hardly the best practice.

It looks like they embed the CDF at the end of the post (line 549), and Chrome interpreted that as "let's download this file without any warning". Both Firefox and Safari just display a "missing plugin" box.

This is most likely a chrome issue, not a Wolfram issue.

I downloaded the plugin for Firefox. The game is not registering key presses.

What's the plugin it's asking for?

On Linux it's a 577 MB download[0], which IMHO is kind of heavy to play a HTML5 game.

[0]: http://www.wolfram.com/cdf-player/

Yeah ... no, I think.

2048, Wolfram Style