FS#40480 - [chromium] (35.0.1916.114-1) fails to load plugins

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Cédric M. Campos (cedricmc) - Wednesday, 21 May 2014, 11:41 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Wednesday, 21 May 2014, 13:04 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

The last chromium version (35.0.1916.114-1) available in the extra repositories fails to load plugins (even with empty/new profile). No "flash", no "java", only "Chromoting Viewer" appears at "chrome://plugins/". Really disturbing.

Steps to reproduce:

$ mkdir chro.tmp
$ chromium --user-data-dir=chro.tmp
[5589:5589:0521/131812:ERROR:component_loader.cc(138)] Failed to parse extension manifest.
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.

Workaround:

As usual, downgrade, in this case to last 34 stable version (34.0.1847.137-1).
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Wednesday, 21 May 2014, 13:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  NPAPI plugins are no longer supported.
Comment by Brian (dbt816) - Wednesday, 21 May 2014, 12:25 GMT
I can confirm this. Same error as shown in the report:

[2642:2642:0521/072220:ERROR:component_loader.cc(138)] Failed to parse extension manifest.
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Wednesday, 21 May 2014, 12:42 GMT
NPAPI plugins are no longer supported.¹ For Flash you'll need to install Pepper Flash.²

¹ https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/topic/chromium-dev/xEbgvWE7wMk
² https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/chromium#Flash_Player_plugin

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