Google Chrome vs Chromium
The other day I had a problem with the Chromium repo a fellow Fedora user maintains. I couldn’t get Flash to work after his latest update. Someone on the forum told me that Google has a beta release of Chrome. So; I removed the “chromium” repo I had previously installed and after installing the new one, I got confused. I thought to myself, “What is the difference between Google Chrome and Chromium?” I thought Chromium would be exclusive to Linux.
Well; I Googl’d it and found this wiki. I thought I’d attempt to give it some traction since others must have the same question.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome
How to Enable Flash Support
Once I got Google Chrome installed, of course, the Flash plugin wasn’t associated with the web browser. So; here’s a quick tutorial. First off, the Chrome install is now in the “/opt” directory. If it’s not there create a “plugins” directory:
$ sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins
Now you’ll need to make a symbolic link to the “libflashplayer.so” file. This can be accomplished with the following command.
$ cd /opt/google/chrome/plugins
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
The system will create an alias file named “libflashplayer.so” within that plugins directory. If you’re running an x86_64 system then you’ll need to make a symbolic link to the “nswrapper” file instead of the direct “libflashplayer.so” file. Do a search and find the location that fits your system.
$ locate libflashplayer
Here’s a link to an Ubuntu-related post on Flash support for Google Chrome. http://maketecheasier.com/enable-flash-support-in-google-chrome-in-ubuntu/2009/08/19
January 3rd, 2010 at 11:25 am
i didt have to do anything to get flash working with chome!
January 5th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Well usman, aren’t you one of the lucky ones. You running Fedora 32-bit?
January 26th, 2010 at 1:53 am
Hello. This is kind of an “unconventional” question , but have other visitors asked you how get the menu bar to look like you’ve got it? I also have a blog and am really looking to alter around the theme, however am scared to death to mess with it for fear of the search engines punishing me. I am very new to all of this …so i am just not positive exactly how to try to to it all yet. I’ll just keep working on it one day at a time Thanks for any help you can offer here.
January 26th, 2010 at 10:55 am
hey WoW Guide. I’m running Wordpress so I have a lot more customizable options compared to blogger.com. Why don’t you get a free account with Wordpress.com and start playing there. There are tons of themes you can choose from.
This site might be a different experience if I hosted it on Wordpress.com. I’m hosting my own site and running my own instance of Wordpress. So; I have full control.