Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:05:16 -0500, John W. Foster wrote:
> Far a while now the adobe flash player/plugin in Debian's Chromium
> browser has been 'out of date' with the approriate warnings popping up ,
> asking to update the flashplayer. I thought the flashplayer was 'built
> in' in Chromium as it is in Google Chrome. I have both installed and
> that appears to be the case in both cases. Neithe is up to date.
It seems¹ that at least for Chromium you have to get some plugins from an
external source:
"(...) Chromium implements a similar feature set as Chrome, but lacks
built-in automatic updates, built-in PDF reader and built-in Flash
player, as well as Google branding and has a blue-colored logo instead of
the multicolored Google logo."
> When I hit the 'update plugin' it sent me to adobes site to download the
> updated flash player.
That's also what Firefox does, it tells you about the installed plugins
and their versions and what need to be updated.
> Now I already have the debian "flashplugin-nonfree" installed, so what
> is up with this. Are all of these 'out of date'? or just the
> flashplugin.
AFAIK, "flashplugin-nonfree" does not automatically update the plugin for
you, it needs from manual interactiaon as explained here².
> Does Chromium actually have flashplayer built in?
After reading the Wikipedia article, I'd say it doesn't.
> Yes I can hit 'run anyway, but its not what I want to do. Any ideas on
> how to fix this. BTW: Iceweasel does not show this issue. Just runs too
> slow for me. Thanks!!
Iceweasel "slow"? At least for me Firefox 13 is fast as hell :-)
¹http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Chromium
²http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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