Linux Chrome now with Flash & extensions
July 13, 2009
Yeah, somebody finally figured out how to make flash work in Chromium. Have a look at this blog. I checked it with youtube and it worked fine!
To install under Ubuntu:
sudo su
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main #chromium-browser" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chromium.list
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
To enable Flash support:
cd /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins
sudo ln -s ../../flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
For extensions:
Start browser with the following:
chromium-browser --enable-greasemonkey --enable-user-scripts --enable-extensions
Click on a crx link (such as adsweep) and browse to chrome://extensions/ to check installation.
July 13, 2009 at 11:14 pm
I’ve been waiting for this!
July 14, 2009 at 9:29 am
Howdy,
I have not tried Chromium yet. I am releide to find Google is not preinstalling Flash. I can still plan on trying Chromium. I certainly don’t want software as bad as Flash on any system of mine. Now, if NoScript will work on Chromium, then it may actually become usable.
Good day,
Ralph
July 14, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Hey Ralph, no browser comes pre installed with Flash.. whether we like it or not, we are stuck with it, since lot of webapps are built on that.. You tube for instance..
July 14, 2009 at 4:26 pm
[...] 14, 2009 OK I just found out this nice blog that teaches me how to activate flash in chrome for linux. to install chrome for linux then do this [...]
July 15, 2009 at 3:13 pm
The latest build breaks it, not working anymore since incoming update 3.0.195.0~svn20090714r20617-0ubuntu1~ucd2~jaunty
July 18, 2009 at 5:05 pm
@ komasoftware ~ Still works, just add the following “-enable-plugins” and flash should work again
August 15, 2009 at 9:29 am
Thank you; it works fine. Is there a way to enable Java too?
I installed v8, but it does not seem to work, even with symbolic links in the plugins directory.