Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> 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.
Which plugin is recommended? Adobe doesn't support it anymore, and the
last time I tried gnash, it didn't work acceptably well. Lightspark
says it's experimental.
Why can't we just use mplayer to watch videos? It plays them just fine
when downloaded with flashgot, and I don't want or need videos inside
the browser, it's a very awkward thing to have. With mplayer, I have
key bindings I can use which I otherwise don't have.
> Chromium is packaged and available for Debian from the main Debian
> repositories.
Well, I've purged chromium because it's too slow. It takes a second or
two to open a new tab even when only 4 or so are already open and
something like that before that to display the contents of its window
when I move to the desktop it's on. Perhaps it'll take like 2 minutes
once 60 tabs are open? Seamonkey doesn't have these problems.
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