You’ll need to add –enable-plugins to your Chrome shortcut’s command line operation to get the “buggy” plug-in support, but it seems worth the hassle, as YouTube videos are playing relatively stable and smooth. Google’s updated their alpha-level Chrome builds to include the newest start page tweaks as well, and it’s generally a browser worth checking out, even if a few standard settings and convenience items are still missing.
Grab an Ubuntu-ready package from the link below, or build the latest Chromium on any Linux system.
Early Access Release Channels [Chromium Developer Documentation via Absolutely!]
Note, it should be:
--enable-plugins
With two dashes in front. In the article they were fused into a single long dash. (Maybe it was drafted in Word.)
As it turns out, the Lifehacker site automatically turns double-dashes into long-dashes; It just happened to my comment too. The more you know...
It's also there in the Mac Chromium builds and actually it's present for a while, since version 3.0.195:
http://www.nezmar.com/mac-chromium-now-with-flash-support/
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