giving up on google-chrome

[Neal Becker]

mike cloaked wrote:

> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:42 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've been happily using google-chrome on F14 for some time, from
>>> baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
>>>
>>> I've used this together with
>>> flash-plugin-10.2.159.1-release.i386
>>>
>>> using nspluginwrapper.
>>>
>>> I used to use google-chrome-unstable, but then one day, it started
>>> misbehaving. When quit, chrome would not restart.  Or, it would, but no
>>> pages would load.  I
>>
>> I wonder why you are using an additional flash-plugin when chrome has
>> flash support already built into it without the need to have a flash
>> plugin package installed?
>>
> 
> By the way I basically used the recipe at
> http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-google-chrome-with-yum-on-
fedora-red-hat-rhel/
> to set up the google repo and then yum installed google-chrome-stable
> - I never installed any additional flash plugin, and have never had a
> problem displaying flash content.
> 
> I have another machine which has been running google-chrome-beta for a
> long time - again without issue.
> 
> It is possible that some extensions may cause problems so that is
> worth checking too.
> 

There is no builtin flash on linux.  What does about:plugins say?