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[stowpirate]

Just located the plugin for flash on the working Chrome v24, it getting complicated as it appears you cannot just copy the files over into the firefox/mozilla plugin directory. Flash is now on v11.7... and chrome v26 on my system will not let me run it as root so won't work in Puppy.

/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash

and files involved are

libpepflashplayer.so
manifest.json

{
"description": "Pepper Flash Player",
"name": "Flapper",
"version": "11.5.31.137",
"x-flapper-revision": "1150867",
"x-ppapi-arch": "ia32",
"x-ppapi-os": "linux",
"x-ppapi-required-interfaces": [
"PPB_AudioConfig;1.1|PPB_AudioConfig;1.0",
"PPB_AudioInput(Dev);0.3|PPB_AudioInput(Dev);0.2",
"PPB_Audio;1.0",
"PPB_BrowserFont_Trusted;1.0",
"PPB_Buffer(Dev);0.4",
"PPB_CharSet(Dev);0.4",
"PPB_Core;1.0",
"PPB_Crypto(Dev);0.1",
"PPB_CursorControl(Dev);0.4",
"PPB_FileChooser(Dev);0.6|PPB_FileChooser(Dev);0.5",
"PPB_FileChooserTrusted;0.6|PPB_FileChooserTrusted;0.5",
"PPB_FileRef;1.0",
"PPB_Flash_Clipboard;5.0|PPB_Flash_Clipboard;4.0",
"PPB_Flash_File_FileRef;2",
"PPB_Flash_File_ModuleLocal;3",
"PPB_Flash_FontFile;0.1|PPB_PDF;1",
"PPB_FlashFullscreen;1.0|PPB_FlashFullscreen;0.1",
"PPB_Flash;13.0|PPB_Flash;12.6|PPB_Flash;12.5|PPB_Flash;12.4",
"PPB_Flash_Menu;0.2",
"PPB_Graphics2D;1.0",
"PPB_Graphics3D;1.0",
"PPB_ImageData;1.0",
"PPB_IMEInputEvent(Dev);0.2|PPB_IMEInputEvent(Dev);0.1",
"PPB_InputEvent;1.0",
"PPB_Instance;1.0",
"PPB_Memory(Dev);0.1",
"PPB_NetAddress_Private;1.1|PPB_NetAddress_Private;1.0|PPB_NetAddress_Private;0.1",
"PPB_OpenGLES2ChromiumMapSub;1.0|PPB_OpenGLES2ChromiumMapSub(Dev);1.0|PPB_GLESChromiumTextureMapping(Dev);0.1",
"PPB_OpenGLES2;1.0",
"PPB_TCPSocket_Private;0.4|PPB_TCPSocket_Private;0.3",
"PPB_TextInput(Dev);0.2|PPB_TextInput(Dev);0.1",
"PPB_UDPSocket_Private;0.4|PPB_UDPSocket_Private;0.3",
"PPB_URLLoader;1.0",
"PPB_URLLoaderTrusted;0.3",
"PPB_URLRequestInfo;1.0",
"PPB_URLResponseInfo;1.0",
"PPB_URLUtil(Dev);0.6",
"PPB_Var;1.1|PPB_Var;1.0",
"PPB_VideoCapture(Dev);0.3|PPB_VideoCapture(Dev);0.2",
"PPB_View;1.0"
]

[disciple]

Just checking: do you want help with something, or are you just describing your observations?

Yes, the newfangled "salt and pepper" plugin system is unique to Chrome (Google doing its bit for standardisation/compatibility/interoperability ).
But you should be able to run Chrome as root if you really want. I've seen mention of a special command line option, and there is also a binary hack that you can do. I don't remember doing the binary hack for a while, so maybe I am using the command line option these days.

[stowpirate]

[666philb]

What puppy are you using?

[stowpirate]

[OscarTalks]

I was taking a look at Google Chrome for the first time yesterday. I have version 26.0.1410.63 and was testing in Lucid Plus and Wheezy.

I don't have any trouble getting it to run as root because I just insert the --user-data-dir switch into the wrapper script along with the --allow-outdated-plugins switch.

The Pepper Flash plugin doesn't work properly though. Playback of Flash content is jerky and stuttery. It is a version of Flash (11.7.x.x) which is not supported in Linux so maybe not surprising. Chromium and Iron do not have this plugin and load the normal Flash Player from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins if it is installed.

With Google Chrome, make sure you have a suitable Flash Player installed and then go to the plugins page via settings or chrome://plugins. Click on "+ details" on the right to expand the page and you will see that the 2 Flash Players are listed separately so you can disable the Pepper Flash one and use only the good one in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.

[stowpirate]

[OscarTalks]

Assuming you are launching Google Chrome via the script /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome open that file as text and look for the bottom line. Mine reads:-

[disciple]

[OscarTalks]

A bit of an update on this. Having seen some information in the Dpup Wheezy thread I have added --audio-buffer-size=2048 to the script and now YouTube and other Flash content is playing perfectly with the pepperflash plugin. I'm using Google Chrome 26.0.1410.63 in Wheezy with no other Flash Player installed.

Uploaded in case people want to test and report:-

Google Chrome 26.0.1410.63 .sfs
download = http://www1.datafilehost.com/d/624e595e
md5sum = 29405b9ebda5c93dd8c87cce3bd854a5

Google Chrome 26.0.1410.63 .pet
download = http://www1.datafilehost.com/d/8cc84e15
md5sum = 004f35cacb52220974bba14693d7f7ae

[pemasu]

Here is generic google-chrome fixator.

Download google-chrome .deb. Install it. Then install this pet. It has the bbe binary editor included with pinstall.sh script. Together they fix the installed google-chrome otherwise so that run-as-root restriction has been removed and also the audio problem will be fixed. There is cache limitation to 10 Mb.

Cheers.