chromium-browser in trusty

[Chad Miller]

Bryan, we're shipping released v34 plus only necessary backports from m35,
and will ship v35 in security when it's ready as normal.  - chad





On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Bryan Quigley <gquigs at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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