Hi Chad, I've been curious what we are going to do about that NPAPI removal...
Just to be clear, we are shipping M34 with backports of Aura from build 35+? Or is the plan to end up shipping M35? Thanks! Bryan On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Chad Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
