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Old 03-05-2015, 04:10 PM   #1
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LXer: 4 things you (probably) didn't know you can do with Chrome for Linux


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Chrome for Linux provides almost all of the features of a Chromebook -- and as a result I get the best of both worlds: The security, freedom and ownership of Linux, and the flexibility of gaining access to services and apps through Chrome.

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Old 03-05-2015, 05:09 PM   #2
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Hmm... so in summary..
1. Chrome promotes DRM
2. Edit images using Adobes Flash
3. Some kind of photo editor. Except seems any web browser could use..
4. Run google programs (since chrome is by google..)

I find it ironic that
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freedom and ownership of Linux
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Technically Netflix is not ‘supported’ on Linux the way it is on Apple’s Mac OS X or Windows 8.1 where the default browsers (Safari or Internet Explorer ) have native support for EME (Encrypted Media Extensions, which allows browsers to playback DRMed content). So you can’t play Netflix in Firefox, or distro specific browsers, on Linux because they have not yet implemented EME.
are in the same blog post. Really?
 
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Thats where Google Chrome comes in: Adobe and Google have been working together to develop the Flash plugin for Google Chrome (Google needed it more for the survival of Chrome OS as a competing platform).
Now there's a theory that I haven't heard before... I just checked, and the year that Google took over Flash on Linux and the year that the first ChromeOS device launched were the same year: 2012. Hmm.

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