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chromium-browser package

  1. Bug #1308783
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1308783

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In , Mattias-eliasson (mattias-eliasson) wrote :

There are a relevant discussion about this here: http://www.firebreath.org/display/documentation/Browser+Plugins+in+a+post-NPAPI+world

The short answer are that there are no sufficient replacement for NPAPI in Chrome. Chromium are open source so it could potentially be modified.

Currently my brightest idea are to use DLL injection and override the entire engine component with something similar to Chrome Frame. If we simply run another browser engine, such as a modified Chromium engine with NPAPI-support, that might work. Or an engine that do not require any hacking such as Qt WebKit which supports NPAPI plugins out of the box.

Another option would be to make a completely Chrome-compatible browser out of Chromium, which are what the Qt WebEngine are all about. Such a browser could be entirely FOSS and shipped with Linux distributions. A mayor problem would be the Flash plugin which may require that Chrome are also installed. As a system admin I would like to avoid installing Chrome in such a scenario, or at least hide it well.