Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Status of google chrome and chromium

[Omar Botta]

On Saturday 12 December 2009 7:43:26 am A.J. Venter wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> >    The extension site doesn't give any
> >    indication of the license of any particular extension
> >    (https://chrome.google.com/extensions). So unless there is some sort
> >    of requirement by google that only free extensions go there, it's a
> >    possible problem for free distros.
> >
> > We might want to raise this issue with Google
> > and ask them to post only free extensions.
>
> Worth a try  - it would make it quite a bit easier there. Just to
> answer the other question - yes it is directly referenced, on the
> extensions management tool this page is linked as a source for getting
> new extensions.
>
> On the plugin side, there is also a catch - I can find no way to make
> chromium use gnash or libsfw - but it seems to be able to import adobe
> flash from firefox if it's there... so we have a browser that seems to
> only support the non-free flash plugin, I will
> do some more checking though - I may just be missing the methodology.
>
> A.J.
> adobe

With binary packages of Chromium, which are downloaded from 
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux/, Gnash works 
fine. 

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Omar Botta
Co-director VENENUX GNU/Linux
www.venenux.org