Chrome not Chromium on Fedora 24

[Peter G.]

I noticed that chromium was now in the fedora repo, so I 
installed it. It turns out that pepperflash is not included, 
but I found freshplayerplugin on rpmfusion. I was not able to 
get it working (the audio/video/ebooks from the public 
library services, such as overdrive, hoopla, Naxos Music 
Library, did not work).

There was already a google-chrome-stable repo in yum.repos.d 
from before, so I updated chrome. This is where the 
problems/confusion began...

1. google-chome-stable is no longer located in /usr/bin
2. no links appear in the launcher (easy to create manually)
3. dead links to the executable in /usr/bin and 
/etc/alternatives
4. chrome is now installed to /opt
5. the google chome repo file has vanished from yum.repos.d
6. privacy badger does not recognize chrome in /opt and no 
amount of uninstalling, closing down chrome, restarting and 
freshly installing the badger would get it to work

So...

Can I manually create the google-chrome-stable repo file and 
will it now update the version installed to /opt, or is this 
going to cause a big mess?

Or, do I henceforth have to uninstall chrome and reinstall 
for every new upgrade?

[M A Young]

On Sun, 4 Sep 2016, P. G.  wrote:
> I noticed that chromium was now in the fedora repo, so I 
> installed it. It turns out that pepperflash is not included, 
> but I found freshplayerplugin on rpmfusion. I was not able to 
> get it working (the audio/video/ebooks from the public 
> library services, such as overdrive, hoopla, Naxos Music 
> Library, did not work).

I don't think freshplayerplugin gives you anything in this case, because 
chromium can already use the PPAPI protocol so you just need to put the 
PepperFlash files somewhere chromium can find it.

Michael Young

[Timothy Murphy]

P. G.  wrote:
> There was already a google-chrome-stable repo in yum.repos.d
> from before, so I updated chrome. This is where the
> problems/confusion began...
> google-chome-stable is no longer located in /usr/bin
> no links appear in the launcher (easy to create manually)
> dead links to the executable in /usr/bin and
>
> /etc/alternatives
> 4. chrome is now installed to /opt
> 5. the google chome repo file has vanished from yum.repos.d
> 6. privacy badger does not recognize chrome in /opt and no
> amount of uninstalling, closing down chrome, restarting and
> freshly installing the badger would get it to work
>
> So...
>
> Can I manually create the google-chrome-stable repo file and
> will it now update the version installed to /opt, or is this
> going to cause a big mess?
>
> Or, do I henceforth have to uninstall chrome and reinstall
> for every new upgrade?

I think there was a fairly brief hiatus in google-chrome-stable
in Fedora-24, which has been cured by the most recent update.

ls -ls /usr/bin/google*
Sep  4 12:19 /usr/bin/google-chrome -> /etc/alternatives/google-chrome
Sep  2 00:20 /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable -> /opt/google/chrome/google-
chrome
ls -ls /etc/alternatives/google-chrome 
Sep  4 12:19 /etc/alternatives/google-chrome -> /usr/bin/google-chrome-
stable