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kelvin.illa
June 4th, 2010, 02:58 PM
I installed Ubuntu on new machine and was dumbfounded by the notion that I had to again install flash on my 64bit Chromium browser. This was because Chromium didn't need Flash when I installed in my other machine; I thought Flash was built-in with Chromium. It turns out Chromium was using the Flash plugin (libflashplayer.so) from my /home/<username>/.mozilla/plugins folder. I took the folder away to test if this was true, and the Flash on Chromium stopped working.

That's amazing! Has anyone else noticed this? I think if anyone should make a tutorial for installing 64bit Flash on Chromium, this is another way of doing it--having Flash on both Firefox and Chromium.

RiceMonster
June 4th, 2010, 03:09 PM
You can also put it in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ if you want it to be system wide, rather for your account only.

zekopeko
June 4th, 2010, 03:27 PM
I thought Flash was built-in with Chromium.

Flash comes with Google Chrome not Chromium.

kelvin.illa
June 5th, 2010, 01:05 AM
You can also put it in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ if you want it to be system wide, rather for your account only.

Nice... I'll do that.