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From: Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium dropping support for NPAPI
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:57:53
Message-Id: 20131122190045.GA16476@dethkomp
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Chromium dropping support for NPAPI by Pavel Volkov
1 On 22/11/13 at 10:24pm, Pavel Volkov wrote:
2 > News here:
3 > http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html
4 >
5 > And the previous one:
6 > http://blog.chromium.org/2012/08/the-road-to-safer-more-stable-and.html
7 >
8 > Currently chromium <---> adobe-flash communication in Gentoo works through
9 > NPAPI and I don't see the bundled Flash plugin on about:plugins page.
10 > There are no USE flags for bundled Flash either.
11 >
12 > In another distro (Chakra) I can see that Flash is using PPAPI, not NPAPI in
13 > Chromium.
14 >
15 > So it possible to build Chromium with bundled Flash in Gentoo?
16 >
17
18 I think your looking for
19
20 * www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins
21 Available versions:
22 (stable) (~)31.0.1650.57_p1^msd
23 (beta) (~)32.0.1700.19_beta1^msd
24 (unstable) [M](~)33.0.1712.4_alpha1^msd [M]**9999^msd
25 {+flash +pdf}
26 Homepage: http://www.google.com/chrome
27 Description: Binary plugins -- native API Flash and PDF -- from Google Chrome for use in Chromium.
28
29
30 Last time I tried it, it didn't work very well. Would keep getting unsupported
31 version of flash etc.
32
33 --
34
35 - Yohan Pereira
36
37 The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference
38 between a mermaid and a seal.
39 -- Mark Twain

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