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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Flash-Plugin not found by Chromium after update
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 14:14:07
Message-Id: 1691434.Fx4iYYIoHz@dell_xps
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Flash-Plugin not found by Chromium after update by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On Sunday 16 Oct 2016 15:49:51 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
2 > On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Stephan Lukasczyk
3 >
4 > <mailinglists@×××××××××.me> wrote:
5 > > Hi all,
6 > >
7 > > I yesterday updated Chromium to 54.0.2840.59 (stable) in my desktop
8 > > machine and since then it is not able to find the Flash plugin. The day
9 > > before, I've updated `www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins` to 54.0.2840.59
10 > > (stable).
11 > >
12 > > Everything went as usual--no warnings, no errors...
13 > >
14 > > After restarting Chromium, it is not able to find the Flash plugin. It
15 > > is not listed in `chrome://plugins` and `chrome://flash` says, that it
16 > > was not installed. I've nothing changed, before the update it worked
17 > > just out of the box.
18 > >
19 > > Has anybody any pointer for me, how to fix this?
20 > >
21 > > Thanks in advance,
22 > >
23 > > Stephan
24 > >
25 > > --
26 > > Stephan Lukasczyk
27 > > GPG-Key: 0x06E03C26B90F403D
28 > > Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question.
29 > > And the answer is "No".
30 >
31 > I've got flash working with these pkgs:
32 > www-plugins/adobe-flash-23.0.0.185
33 > www-client/chromium-54.0.2840.59
34 >
35 > With no www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins installed.
36
37 I have both www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins and www-plugins/adobe-flash. The
38 plugin listed in chromium appears to be adobe-flash. I am guessing this is a
39 recent change, because if I recall correctly I had to install chrome-binary-
40 plugins to be able to play flash videos in the first place.
41 --
42 Regards,
43 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Flash-Plugin not found by Chromium after update Stephan Lukasczyk <mailinglists@×××××××××.me>