Chrome

[mike cloaked]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Michael Miles <mmamiga6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I could never play youtube or fox news videos with firefox and
> shockwave.
> So I installed Chrome and youtube yes fox news no
>
> I disabled wrapper and still no go
>
> Any thoughts

I don't know what/how you have installed but I run chrome (not
chromium) and foxnews video works fine! Flash works out of the box
with it (yes I know chrome is proprietary), and I had to install java
the correct way, but it just works now. Install was via yum after
setting up the google repo and then yum install google-chrome-beta

The method to get java working was essentially:
Download the jre from
http://java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp?locale=en&host=java.com:80

Choose 32 or 64 bit version as appropriate

Execute the java install bin file within the directory where you want
to store the java stuff
Make any links necessary:

Now check for the location of jre1.6.0_17/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so

Now
mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins

cd /opt/google/chrome/plugins

ln -s /path/to/jre1.6.0_17/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so .

On 64 bit may need to reference lib64 in the jre instead of lib

Restart Chrome and check that java works.  This works for me.

The only other additions in chrome I use is to have Adblock and the
RSS extension - and with this setup Foxnews video plays fine in F12.

Hope this helps - it would be really nice if chromium could be made to
work properly with flash and java but I never got it to do so. If
anyone has a "recipe" for installing it and getting it to work with
both flash and java then I would be happy to switch from chrome to
chromium.

-- 
mike c