** Description changed: - pepperflashplugin-nonfree downloads the Chrome for Linux Debian package (.deb) from the Google and extracts the Flash PPAPI plugin (libpepflashplayer.so) to make it available to other browsers system-wide. + pepperflashplugin-nonfree downloads the Chrome for Linux Debian package (.deb) from Google and extracts the Flash PPAPI plugin (libpepflashplayer.so) to make it available to other browsers system-wide. pepperflashplugin-nonfree is broken since Google stopped shipping Flash with Chrome 54 for Linux. - pepperflashplugin-nonfree will need to look somewhere else online for libpepflashplayer.so. + pepperflashplugin-nonfree will probably need to look somewhere else online for libpepflashplayer.so. A Chrome user reported the missing Flash plugin in Chrome 53 beta. A Chromium developer answered that the Chrome browser is not bundled with the Flash plugin anymore. It seems that a Flash plugin still exists for Chrome but the user must now install it manually. Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=645687 - Here you can see the relevant change in the build script; only ChromeOS gets libpepflashplayer.so bundled with Chrome: + Here you can see the relevant change in the build script; only ChromeOS gets libpepflashplayer.so bundled with Chrome: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/366d572053dd85c8eeda802f423716d9b008fe01%5E%21/#F0 (side note: https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/ offers Windows and Mac versions but no ChromeOS version)
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