Chrome Browser?

[Gilles Gravier]

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:
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>     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.