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Iron works great but has issues with Flash (Ubuntu 9.10 x64). Can anyone confirm if Linux Chrome plays well with Flash?

• pyre 17y ago
  I've been running daily builds of Chrome and Chromium without flash issues. I don't update regularly though. My 'daily builds' are probably 1.5-2 months old. I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit though.
• kylemathews 17y ago
  For the past ~2 months or so, Linux Chrome has worked really well with flash -- as good or better than Firefox. They seem to be running a windows version of flash -- or at least the few times flash has run into an endless loop and I have to kill it via top, the process name is "exe". Update: Flash still doesn't work perfectly -- as my trip to scribd just proved. For times like this, I just reopen the page in Firefox.
  • sjs 17y ago
    That explains a lot! I wondered how Chrome OS got the Linux build of Flash working without X11. I thought they might have a thin X11 lib in their window manager, but I guess they shoe-horned the Windows build into the Linux version of Chrome. Crafty.
    • wmf 17y ago
      Chrome OS uses X11. The idea that Chrome is running Windows Flash Player under some kind of Wine wrapper is ridiculous IMO.
      • jrockway 17y ago
        But the name contains the string .exe! Clearly that means Windows is being emulated. (Note to people that think this is true; install f-spot on Linux some time. It's a C# application, and ends in .exe. Even though it has nothing to do with Windows, except that Microsoft spec'd C# and Microsoft makes Windows...)
        • malkia 17y ago
          So does all mono compiled applications for unix/mac. It's just an extension. It might be what you have said, but unless verified. It isn't. Picasa for example is emulated through wine on Linux/Mac, but that's because it was developed originally for Win32.
          • lt 17y ago
            It's not correct to say that Picasa is emulated using wine. Instead, it's a native Linux app that has been ported using WineLib, which reimplements a lot of the Windows API, but compiled to Linux. Instead of replacing API calls with the Linux equivalents, there's just an additional layer that redirect calls or implements them. Wine and WineLib are different things.
      • DrJokepu 17y ago
        Even though this is not true in this case, this wouldn't be unheard of. Google did exactly the same with Picasa, that is, the Linux port of Picasa is a modified version of the original Windows Picasa running on Wine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa#Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa#Linux
      • sjs 17y ago
        My mistake. I wrongly assumed Chrome OS did not include X11 when I read that they used a new window system.
    • blasdel 17y ago
      ChromeOS is written on top of Clutter, which uses OpenGL via X11.
  • joeyh 17y ago
    The process name is exe because chrome internally runs /proc/self/exe when launching the thread for flash.