rootninja

I can understand not including the support by default. No need to create bloat, but I want flash support for Google Chrome in Linux, so here goes…

Install gnash-plugin

(my only prerequisite was bzip2-libs)

# yum install gnash-plugin.i686

I tried swfdec-mozilla first, and while chrome would recognize it, flash content would just display as a black screen. This is the same experience I had with this plugin for Firefox. I also tried the real adobe version with no luck.

Long live the gnash-plugin.

Install the plugin for Chrome

If you’re using Fedora, google-chrome will be installed in /opt/google/chrome/
If you’re using Ubuntu or some other os, it _may_ be installed in /opt/google-chrome/

Create a “plugins” directory under your chrome directory.

# cd /opt/google/chrome
# mkdir plugins

Link the flash plugin.

# cd plugins
# ln -s `rpm -ql gnash-plugin.i686`

Restart

Restart chrome and go to “about:plugins”. You should see the plugin listed at the top.

Test

And here’s a “flash test” page:

http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/info/en/help/requirements/flash.html

Tada!

Hmm, it would be interesting to see if you could just link the mozilla plugin directory in place of creating a new one and linking your plugins there. I couldn’t do that because i’m using 64 bit firefox with real (not wrapped) 64 bit plugins and 32 bit chrome.