Google Chromium Chrome Browser

Howto get the open source GoogleChrome Browser working on on ed/x/ubuntu gnu/linux with the adobe flash (non-free) addon plugin and sun java plugin. So sites that require flash such as http://www.moo.com can work properly !

Install Google Chromium Chrome Browser

Install Google Chromium Chrome Browser as per google instructions

adobe flash

Install Adobe Flash plugin for FireFox as normal then create a symbolic link for google chrome
$ su -
# cd /opt/google/chrome/
# mkdir plugins
$ cd /opt/google/chrome/plugins/
# ln -s /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so


Ignore any errors such as
[6814:6902:1116804552:ERROR:
/usr/local/google/home/chrome-eng/b/slave/chrome-official-linux/build/src/chrome/browser/password_manager/encryptor_linux.cc(29)] 
Not implemented reached in static bool 
Encryptor::EncryptString(const std::string&, std::string*)


google chrome sun java plugin howto

Uninstall any openjdk icedtea plugin (which dont work with google chrome) and then install Sun Java plugin
$ su -
# aptitude install sun-java6-plugin


then create a symbolic link for google chrome
$ su -
# cd /opt/google/chrome/
# mkdir plugins

# cd /opt/google/chrome/plugins/
# ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 


google chrome adobe flash and sun java plugin verification

Finally navigate to http://www.flash.com to verify that google chrome on ed/x/ubuntu gnu/linux is working with the flash plugin is working and navigate to http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1 "do i have java" to verify that google chrome is working with the sun java plugin


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