[CentOS] Chromium browser for C6

Mon Nov 17 09:41:19 UTC 2014
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 17.11.2014 um 08:54 schrieb Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I noticed that before chromium-browser-38 (e.g. chromium-31), the browser
>> was able to find the "external" flash plugin (/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/...).
>> 
>> I didn't have followed the development but I presume that "such" plugins
>> are
>> not supported anymore, right?
>> 
>> 
> Correct. Chromium no longer supports NPAPI Netscape Plugin API.
> 
> http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html


Thanks for the clarification!


> So the older 11.2.x  version, which btw has no more development from Adobe
> other than security fixes, works with Firefox only.
> 
> The newer 15.x version pepper based flash works with Chromium. But, as far
> as my understanding goes, that plugin can only be distributed by Google.

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LF