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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium browser plugins not listed
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 15:04:30
Message-Id: 201405241604.15071.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium browser plugins not listed by Mike Gilbert
1 On Saturday 24 May 2014 15:02:36 Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On May 24, 2014 5:43 AM, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > Hi All,
4 > >
5 > > I run chromium-35.0.1916.114-r1 and noticed that only the 'Chromoting
6 >
7 > Viewer'
8 >
9 > > plugin is listed under chromium://plugins. The other plugins must be
10 >
11 > there
12 >
13 > > because they are being launched and run - e.g. adobe flash. Although
14 > >
15 > > interestingly Adobe Flash is not detected when I visit:
16 > > https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
17 > >
18 > > and the flash graphics do not run (see attached screenshot).
19 > >
20 > > Firefox and Opera have no such problems and list all/more plugins.
21 > >
22 > > Any idea why this is so and if there is anything I can do to fix it?
23 > > --
24 > > Regards,
25 > > Mick
26 >
27 > Chromium 35 does not support npapi plugins.
28 >
29 > A ppapi version of flash is available in www -
30 > plugins/chrome-binary-plugins.
31
32 Thanks Mike, I didn't know about ppapi - or that this is available as a
33 separate package. Shouldn't it be drawn in as dependency by Chromium, or at
34 least done so by some USE flag?
35
36 --
37 Regards,
38 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium browser plugins not listed Greg Turner <gmt@×××××.us>