Chrome versus Chromium Ubuntu

[ocky]

"I'm afraid that I'm not yet sure how Google Chrome really differs from Chromium in Linux, specifically in Ubuntu. This
site shows the differences between both variants. However, it seems that that table is not quite reliable. It says, e.g., that for Adobe flash Chrome has its "custom (non-free) plugin included in release". But if I uninstall the adobe-flashplugin package, flash in Chrome doesn't work - it obviously doesn't have its own plugin included. It has its own PDF viewer, though.

The sandbox is, as the table says for Ubuntu, enabled in both according to chrome://sandbox.

One difference which I found: In chrome://flash Chromium has the warning: "GPU access is not allowed" while Chrome doesn't show that.

Can someone with more knowledge about Chrome/Chromium enlighten me?"

Was asked this by a colleague - any info appreciated.

 

[ocky]

Ok, the GPU warning is fixed.
Is GPU Accelerated Compositing and/or GPU Accelerated Canvas 2D turned on ? If it is, try turning it off. If it isn't, try turning it on.
The reason why disabling the flash plugin in a 64 bit version doesn't use the external flash plugin is because the 64 bit version of chrome does not come bundled with flash plugin like the 32 bit version - it only uses the external flash plugin, so disabling it will of course leave you without flash as there is no internal plugin to fall back on.