A.J. Venter wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: >> The extension site doesn't give any >> indication of the license of any particular extension >> (https://chrome.google.com/extensions). So unless there is some sort >> of requirement by google that only free extensions go there, it's a >> possible problem for free distros. >> >> We might want to raise this issue with Google >> and ask them to post only free extensions. > > Worth a try - it would make it quite a bit easier there. Just to > answer the other question - yes it is directly referenced, on the > extensions management tool this page is linked as a source for getting > new extensions. > > On the plugin side, there is also a catch - I can find no way to make > chromium use gnash or libsfw - but it seems to be able to import adobe > flash from firefox if it's there... so we have a browser that seems to > only support the non-free flash plugin, I will > do some more checking though - I may just be missing the methodology.
My friend emax mentioned in another context that they actually have a much-nicer-looking-than-mozilla plugin architecture, but that it's still betaish / not well doc'ed well yet. cc:ing him if he cares to expound. Cheers, -- Daniel JB Clark | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation pobox.com/~dclark | http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny
