Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium browser plugins not listed

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: Text/Plain, Size: 1134 bytes --]

On Saturday 24 May 2014 15:02:36 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On May 24, 2014 5:43 AM, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I run chromium-35.0.1916.114-r1 and noticed that only the 'Chromoting
> 
> Viewer'
> 
> > plugin is listed under chromium://plugins.  The other plugins must be
> 
> there
> 
> > because they are being launched and run - e.g. adobe flash.  Although
> > 
> > interestingly Adobe Flash is not detected when I visit:
> >   https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
> > 
> > and the flash graphics do not run (see attached screenshot).
> > 
> > Firefox and Opera have no such problems and list all/more plugins.
> > 
> > Any idea why this is so and if there is anything I can do to fix it?
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Mick
> 
> Chromium 35 does not support npapi plugins.
> 
> A ppapi version of flash is available in www -
> plugins/chrome-binary-plugins.

Thanks Mike, I didn't know about ppapi - or that this is available as a 
separate package.  Shouldn't it be drawn in as dependency by Chromium, or at 
least done so by some USE flag?

-- 
Regards,
Mick

[-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part. --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 490 bytes --]