chromium-browser in trusty

[Bryan Quigley]

Hi Chad,

I've been curious what we are going to do about that NPAPI removal...

Just to be clear, we are shipping M34 with backports of Aura from
build 35+?  Or is the plan to end up shipping M35?

Thanks!
Bryan


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Chad Miller <chad.miller at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi all.  I maintain the chromium packaging for Ubuntu, and I'd like to
> explain its state and near future.
>
> Chromium-browser in 14.04 is stuck in a bad position.  First, upstream is
> killing* the old Netscape Plugin API as they rip out Gtk2 libraries and move
> to their internal toolkit, "Aura". NPAPI is still popular among
> poorly-updated plugins like Adobe's Flash*. Upstream hopes to have all of
> Gtk2 (and therefore NPAPI) removed by next major release, which is a few
> weeks away. Chromium source churns greatly, and maintaining distro patches
> to keep Gtk2+NPAPI isn't maintainable.
>
> So, some plugins are going to break. I picked the start of the Trusty's
> release as the time to have a kind of regression, instead of one month in as
> part of a security update. It sucks, but I think it's the better choice.
>
> The new internal toolkit has a few bugs, which you may see. I'm fixing and
> backporting fixes and I expect to see a week or two of ugliness, before it
> stabilizes to a great browser again.  Please report bugs in launchpad
> instead of here, too.
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> -Chad Miller
>
>
>
> *
> http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html
> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-dev/xEbgvWE7wMk/D_07G2lftacJ
>
>
> **  Adobe still refuses to update downloadable Flash for Linux, but
> mulltiverse has a path to extract libraries out of Google Chrome and install
> them, and the plugin-required popup now sends users to a wiki page that
> guides users how to install.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash
>
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