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Flash for Chrome in Linux

Ok, I’m such a big liar….

It is not possible right now to have the flash plugin working on Chrome.

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But please continue reading I will explain you another way that I’m sure will make you happy!

Google Chrome is a project that is based on the GPL project Chromium as they say in their web:

‘Chromium’ vs ‘Google Chrome’
Chromium is an open source browser project. Google Chrome is a browser from Google, based on the Chromium project.

Chromium is normally more updated and with Chromium you can use Flash, even in 64 bits!

Now I will explain to you how to install Chromium in Ubuntu:

sudo su
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main #chromium-browser"  > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chromium.list
apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5
apt-get update
apt-get install chromium-browser

Now we install the Flash player for Chromium (if you had a previous browser flash enabled)

cd /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins
ln -s ../../flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

If you didn’t have a previous browser with flash installed, please download it and uncompress it here: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins

Launch Chromium with Flash enabled:

chromium-browser --enable-plugins %U

You can create a launcher in your desktop or modify the one you already have.

Enjoy the fastest browser for Linux nowadays! I’m sure!