Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Enable Flash on Google Chrome Linux Dev Build

Hey,

Looks like the google chrome dev build on linux don't come with flash enabled by default. This has been preventing you from using it on linux ? Here is a little 3 commands process that get you the google chrome plays flash on ubuntu (on most of the flash enabled site) :


sudo mkdir -p /opt/google/chrome/plugins
sudo cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --enable-plugins


Feel free to comment if you have more hacks to enable other plugins on google chrome linux dev builds, I'll update the post :-)
Posted by Unknown at 7/21/2009 10:18:00 AM

9 comments:

  1. hemanth.hmJuly 21, 2009 at 8:08 PM

    Nice , trick but , in the background :

    [687:687:46825668681:ERROR:/b/slave/chrome-official-linux/build/src/chrome/browser/metrics/metrics_service.cc(772)] Not implemented reached in static std::string MetricsService::GenerateClientID()

    Error !!

    Ubuntu 9.04 2.6.28-13-generic

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  2. UnknownJuly 21, 2009 at 9:42 PM

    same ubuntu and kernel versions here.
    What is your google chrome build version ? mine is 3.0.194.3.
    Also I noted that even when not browsing sites with flash enabled sometimes the CPU is around 50% idle, so that is not really stable neither

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  3. Lucas Rosa GalegoJuly 22, 2009 at 5:40 PM

    The mplayer Plugin works well to with the same configurantion

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  4. UnknownJuly 22, 2009 at 5:41 PM

    @Lucas : would be interested to have the steps to try out mplayer Plugin instead. can you paste them here ?

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  5. AnonymousJuly 24, 2009 at 12:57 AM

    I had problems getting this working but then I realised I was using the 64-bit version of libflashplayer.so. I downloaded the 32-bit version from Adobe and now it's working. It doesn't display all Flash - it displays youtube.com but not a a whole lot more that I tested with. To see if the plugin is active type about:plugins in the browser bar. I notice in my terminal prompt that when I run google-chrome as sudo I get a lot less errors.

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