[nmglug] chromium?

[john doe]

Runs on debian?

> Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 17:26:22 -0600
> From: s at mnoble.net
> To: nmglug at lists.nmglug.org
> Subject: Re: [nmglug] Approved coreboot AMD mobo
> 
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:50:49PM -0600, Arlo Barnes wrote:
> > Once at a meeting I mentioned that I thought I had in the past run a free
> > version of Flash, and you said that the only free Flash you knew of was
> > Gnash (which I misheard as Ganesh, which itself would be a cool name for a
> > package).
> 
> There have been several projects which can masquerade as a flash plugin.
> 
> AFAIK, gnash is the most popular, and as you mention is actually quite
> good at doing the kind of stuff flash was used for when gnash was a new
> project. But very often fails for joe website's little player.swf that
> plays some .flv video file. 
> 
> There are also at least swfdec, and lightspark. (I seem to recall one
> with "game" in the name somewhere too, and some of these may be forks of
> each other.)
> 
> I'm a fan and supporter of gnash, but if you want to watch video online,
> I recommend not installing any flash plugin at all. Most sites use some
> kind of javascript to try and guess what to serve you, and having gnash
> installed seems to just get you a lot more "please upgrade your flash"
> messages and links to adobe web sites.  The best stuff I've come across
> for playing video on the type of sites that might want you to use flash,
> has been the ViewTube* (and ViewTubePlus**) userscripts for javascript
> replacing plugins like Greasemonkey.
> 
> Another good trick is to install UserAgentString switching plugin, that can
> report your browser is one that the webmaster doesn't expect will have
> flash, like an ithing.
> 
> > I installed Chromium just because some minor things in the interface
> > are nice to have, and Firefox/Iceweasel does not have them; Chromium
> > comes with a plugin called 'Pepper' Flash -
> 
> It looks like this is just instrumentation around the same non-free
> flash.
> 
> *http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/87011
> **http://userscripts.org:8080/scripts/show/159658
> 
> -- 
> sam
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