Hi all. I maintain the chromium packaging for Ubuntu, and I'd like to explain its state and near future.
Chromium-browser in 14.04 is stuck in a bad position. First, upstream is killing* the old Netscape Plugin API as they rip out Gtk2 libraries and move to their internal toolkit, "Aura". NPAPI is still popular among poorly-updated plugins like Adobe's Flash*. Upstream hopes to have all of Gtk2 (and therefore NPAPI) removed by next major release, which is a few weeks away. Chromium source churns greatly, and maintaining distro patches to keep Gtk2+NPAPI isn't maintainable. So, some plugins are going to break. I picked the start of the Trusty's release as the time to have a kind of regression, instead of one month in as part of a security update. It sucks, but I think it's the better choice. The new internal toolkit has a few bugs, which you may see. I'm fixing and backporting fixes and I expect to see a week or two of ugliness, before it stabilizes to a great browser again. Please report bugs in launchpad instead of here, too. I hope this helps, -Chad Miller * http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-dev/xEbgvWE7wMk/D_07G2lftacJ ** Adobe still refuses to update downloadable Flash for Linux, but mulltiverse has a path to extract libraries out of Google Chrome and install them, and the plugin-required popup now sends users to a wiki page that guides users how to install. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash
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