On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 21:59, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On 21/01/16 09:41 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> What does chrome give you that chromium does not? > > Nothing that I know of...but I thought that staying with the Google > product is just simpler. I've had chromium on this machine for a little > while and it **seems** to be Chrome in plainer clothes. So I just > might remove google-chrome and live with chromium for now. An install of > 64-bit Debian is not in the cards for now.
One thing that chrome gives you that chromium does not is the built-in PPAPI Adobe flash plugin, which you may or may not need or want. But if you do want it or need it, you can install chromium plus pepperflashplugin-nonfree. Unfortunatley, there are no automatic updates. You have to run "update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --status" periodically to check for updates, followed by "update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install" if an update is needed. That does bring up an interesting question though. I believe that "update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install" works by downloading the chrome package from google, extracting the built-in pepper flash plugin, then installing the pepper flash plugin into chromium. Will Google stop updating the 32-bit version of the flash plugin contained within the 32-bit version of chrome? I don't know the answer to that one. Note that chromium does support html5, so the need for the flash plugin is not as great as it once was. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-
