Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 08:02:20
Message-Id: 201506250901.55430.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
1 Oops! I seem to have missed sending this to the list instead of Andrew.
2
3 On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 22:03:45 Mick wrote:
4 > On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 08:31:51 you wrote:
5 > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 07:08:01 +0100 Mick wrote:
6 > > > On Tuesday 23 Jun 2015 11:54:02 Neil Bothwick wrote:
7 > > > > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 05:26:31 -0500, Dale wrote:
8 > > > > > > Take from that what you will. Note, the issues are for chromium
9 > > > > > > and not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what
10 > > > > > > you want to know though.
11 > > > > >
12 > > > > > Thanks. That was what I was looking for. I guess they did do this
13 > > > > > then. This may be the first time I checked into a story from that
14 > > > > > site and it be true. It seems google did sort of sneak some code
15 > > > > > in there. o_O
16 > > > >
17 > > > > There is a now a USE flag to specifically enable this. It defaults to
18 > > > > disabled but if you previously emerged chromium before the flag as
19 > > > > added, you will still have it. Using --newuse will cause a world
20 > > > > update to re-emerge chromium, but if you use --changed-use it
21 > > > > doesn't, so re-emerge chromium if you want to get rid of this.
22 > > >
23 > > > What is the new USE flag and does it also apply to 43.0.2357.65?
24 > >
25 > > The flag is USE="hotwording", it applies to 45.0.2431.0 and later
26 > > versions. Please note that this flag disables autoload of hotwording
27 > > nacl plugin, so if one had earlier chromium versions installed, one
28 > > will still have this plugin installed on a system.
29 > >
30 > > In order to remove already installed plugin one have to delete the
31 > > following directory:
32 > > ~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions/lccekmodgklaepjeofjdjpbminllajkg
33 > >
34 > > See also:
35 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552298
36 > >
37 > > Best regards,
38 > > Andrew Savchenko
39 >
40 > Thank you Dale for bringing this to our attention and thank you Andrew for
41 > the bug and hint to remove the already downloaded blob. I am emerging
42 > 43.0.2357.130 which has the USE flag "-hotwording%" unset as a default.
43
44 --
45 Regards,
46 Mick

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