Adobe Flash in chromium-browser (Katya)
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:58 am
I've been happily using Flash within Chromium since I installed Katya (AMD64). However at the weekend there was an upgrade to chromium-browser (to release version 16.0.912.77) and now any page that requires Flash pops up a warning bar reading The Flash plug-in was blocked because it is out of date. There's an option to "Run this time" but that needs clicking on every single page that requires Flash.
I found a workaround suggesting to run Chromium as chromium-browser --allow-outdated-plugins but that feels like it's just sweeping the problem under the carpet rather than actually fixing it. Is there any plans for an updated version of Flash to be released officially through Mint, or would I be better just bypassing Mint's packaging and downloading Flash directly from Adobe?
I found a workaround suggesting to run Chromium as chromium-browser --allow-outdated-plugins but that feels like it's just sweeping the problem under the carpet rather than actually fixing it. Is there any plans for an updated version of Flash to be released officially through Mint, or would I be better just bypassing Mint's packaging and downloading Flash directly from Adobe?