Frank McCormick wrote: > lee wrote: > >trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are > >able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have > >libflashplayer.so in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory which used to play > >such videos. I have removed it for testing and both browsers still play > >videos. In the past, seamonkey was unable to play these videos when the > >flash player library was removed. > > > >What might they be using to play these videos? Where is configured what > >they use? Youtube supports the brand new HTML5 with direct video object support. If the browser does too then Flash is not used. Instead the browser plays the video directly. It is still under development and is not yet perfect but is quite usable. Here is a reference: http://www.youtube.com/html5 > Chrome has built-in Flash - it's called PepperFlash so it does not > depend on external libraries, Chrome is the nonfree version. It is nonfree because it includes Flash and probably other nonfree things. Chromium is the free version and does not have Flash nor any other nonfree thing embedded. That is the specific difference between Chrome and Chromium. Chromium will use a Flash plugin just like Firefox will use a Flash plugin. Chromium is packaged and available for Debian from the main Debian repositories. Chrome is available directly from Google but is not available from Debian because it does not meet the DFSG. Bob
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