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Pipelight and Chrome 34+

Asked by Teeedubb

As per the answer in this question: https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+question/246665
Pipelight no longer works with Chrome v34+ due to Google depreceating NAPI (Chromium-browser v34 is in trusty's repos).

Is there any way to work around this? Or is better to switch to using FireFox?

Thanks in advance.

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Best Michael Müller (mqchael) said : 		#1

Hi,

we created some patches to partially reenable NPAPI support for Chromium. For more information take a look at the linked bug report, though this won't bring you back NPAPI support in Google's version of Chrome.

Michael

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Teeedubb (teeedubb) said : 		#2

Thanks Michael,
Will take a look at that link.

By the way, Pipelight is awesome, thanks for all the work :)

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Teeedubb (teeedubb) said : 		#3

Thanks Michael Müller, that solved my question.

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James T (s742f123+uone) said : 		#4

I created an account just so I could say THANK YOU to the PIpelight developers. I have read some articles claiming that "Pipelight is overkill" and I just don't get that. Pipelight solves a problem in a very clever way that no one else has, and for me it is the perfect solution for accessing Hulu, Netflix, Crackle, and Amazon in Debian LInux.

Here is a helpful hint for Debian users, and perhaps others: Download the actually Firefox executable from Mozilla and extract it to a folder in your home directory. Put a shortcut on your desktop or launch it from the command line. It performs better than Iceweasel, and uses your existing Pipelight install!

Thanks, Pipelight, keep up the good work!

~James