[gentoo-user] Chromium browser plugins not listed

[gentoo-user] Chromium browser plugins not listed

[Mick]

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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

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

[Mike Gilbert]

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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.

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

[Mick]

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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?

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Regards,
Mick

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

[Greg Turner]

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On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins will get you chrome-style flash and pdf
viewing.  As for everything else... well, I have been finding lots of uses
for firefox lately...  There is a patch out there to re-enable npapi but
it's no panacea, believe me.

Anyone know of a good chromium fork with less borg-ware and anti-features
in it?  I'm starting to get fed up.

-gmt

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