Chrome Browser?
Gilles Gravier
ggravier at fsfe.org
Thu Sep 5 09:49:17 UTC 2013
Hi!
On 05/09/2013 11:39, Sanpreet Singh wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com
> <mailto:tomh0665 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:34 PM, GaryT <taig at melbpc.org.au
> <mailto:taig at melbpc.org.au>> wrote:
> >
> > We've been told it's necessary to install Google Chrome Browser
> in order to
> > use Adobe Flash v 11.7. Apparently Adobe stopped development at
> 11.2 and
> > 11.7 is not available in anything other than Chrome.
> >
> > Does anyone know why? Is it absolutely true that 11.7 is not
> available
> > elsewhere? Any comments about it? Will it install in Ubuntu
> 12.04.2
> > beside FireFox 20.0 and not cause any trouble? I'm thinking to
> use it only
> > when I need Adobe Flash.
>
> In Chrome: "chrome://plugins/"
>
> If you install the testing version of chrome, you'll have flash 11.8.
>
> What does the stable version have?
>
>
> I have a doubt and Will be happy if you clear it. I think Google
> Chrome and Mozilla is open Source. If I am right then Why adope is
> making tie up with Mozilla and Chrome. Sry If i Ask a stupid Question
> But i need the Clarification For that.
>
There are no stupid questions (there are some stupid answers out there,
but that's beyond the point).
Mozilla is open source. Google Chrome isn't. Google Chrome is a
proprietary browser developped by Google, but based on the open source
Chromium browser.
Chromium is (because it's open source) direcly present in the Ubuntu
repositories... but doesn't include flash. :)
Chrome isn't (because it's proprietary and not redistributable). If you
want to install it, you need to go to http://chrome.google.com/ and
download the .deb (which, once you install it, will configure a proper
repository for this proprietary browser - which will give you future
updates).
Adobe makes a commercial decision when it choses to bundle Flash with
Chrome. Probably one of Adobe or Google payed the other lots of money
for this to happen.
I hope this helps.
Gilles.
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