Google’s Chromium O/S now has Adobe Flash 10 inside

Post date: Aug 27, 2012 4:52:36 AM

Originally posted March 30, 2010

I finally was able to compile and setup the latest Google Chromium O/S source for use on my NetBook(s) (using version 5.0.363.0 if anyone is interested). I last tried it out back in November 2009 and was surprised to see that they’ve added Adobe Flash 10! Oddly enough, HTML5 video appears to not be working, I just get an error stating that “Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available” when trying aYouTube HTML5 beta video. Hmm, either HTML5 video playback is just broken on this build or their trying to iron out bugs in Flash and wanted to force everyone into using it for video instead for now. I can confirm that other non-video related HTML5 coded sites work.

I also found that the build doesn’t boot on my EEEPC 701 netbook, while the old November build worked fine, even with the WiFi. This release now works fine on my Lenovo S10 netbook, although WiFi doesn’t work due to proprietary Broadcomm firmware being needed (although from the Google Groups posts, it appears to be getting addressed).

Here’s a picture of the OS I just took with a YouTube video playing back in Flash (and a right-click on the video to show the Flash menu):

P.S. This entire post was created using Chromium O/S