Hi, Belham.
Glad to hear you're happy with it. I, too, have started using some of the 64-bit Pups for the exact same reason; Google pulling the plug on 32-bit Chrome. In my case, Tahr64, Slacko64, and tazoc's (now Dry Falls) Lighthouse64.
As you've probably seen me talking about it, I've been an avid Chrome user ever since it was in beta, back in 2008. (Gawd, where
does the time go?
) Since I found OscarTalks' thread on SlimJet, and decided to give it a try, I've been hooked; it's a brilliant Chrome analogue, and a sight more configurable and privacy conscious, too.
To answer your question about PepperFlash; AFAIK, the 32-bit version
is dead in the water. Since it was developed by Adobe especially
for Chrome, that particular item has now got nowhere to go; since Google are not developing 32-bit Chrome any longer, 32-bit Pepper 'died' along with it.
As to the updating, well; Pepper is only ever updated automatically in Chrome, since the updater mechanism is exclusively Google's property. As you may or may not know, the Chromium Projects are sponsored by Google. This is where the 'cutting-edge' development work is done for Chrome. Whenever a 'stable' version of Chromium is released, Google take it, add their proprietary bits'n'bobs to it, then release it, re-badged as Chrome.
Chrome is released exclusively by Google. Chromium, however, is freely released to most Linux distros as source code, whereupon each distros developers will normally compile it for use with their own release. It's also freely available to independent developers, like FlashPeak. Since Chrome is based upon Chromium, it should come as no surprise that PepperFlash is fully compatible with Chromium.....but although Chromium (and the various Chromium-based browsers) are still being actively developed on the 32-bit platform, unfortunately, they are still stuck with the very last release of 32-bit Pepper; 21.0.0.213.
(Even Ubuntu, for Chromium, have to download Chrome, strip Pepper out of the mess, then discard the rest of it... I know this, having used Ubuntu for several months, till Canonical's constant updates start putting my graphics 'on the fritz'..!)
Each 32-bit release of SlimJet
will contain PepperFlash, although it will be that 'final' version. Each 64-bit release will contain the current up-to-date version. But there's no real reason to keep updating SlimJet itself, unless you want to; if you find a version that works for you, stick with it.....and just update the vulnerable bits.
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64-bit Pepper will, of course, continue to be developed further, until the world-wide internet community have had enough of its constant shortcomings, and finally switch to HTML5 for good. This, of course, pre-supposes that website designers and developers get the message 'loud & clear', and ditch the daft habit of crafting sites that will only work with M$'s Internet Explorer; believe it or not, there are
still quite a number out there..! Only the other day, I was looking into VPN's; I'd found one that looked perfect for the job - LogMeIn by Hamachi - and
then I discovered that you could only set it up online. And guess what; it wanted me to do it in IE8.....which even M$ have now dropped support for.
I have a copy of XP Professional, which I keep hanging about just
for oddball cases like this. But I knew it would be a waste of time; with M$ having dropped it, it will no longer even connect, much less work. (And I won't normally touch it with a barge-pole..!) I
ask you; how
stupid can you get?
As far as Pepper itself is concerned, I shall continue to keep the 64-bit .pets fully up-to-date. Updating Chrome in Puppy always means doing a re-install; the Linux version doesn't auto-update. This is mainly why I came up with the idea of the .pets; there's a lot of Puppy users who can't be bothered to keep re-installing Chrome; 'if it works...', etc. At least with the PepperFlash .pets, they can simply d/l, click to install, and it's done. It's quite handy having discovered that elderly versions will work with the newest Pepper.....and that came about almost by a happy 'accident', as I was 'tinkering' one day, and found out, to my surprise, that the process
did work..!
I currently have
Chrome 26 (!!!) in rerwin's SuperLucid2 5.2.8.7 (courtesy of
TwoPuppies), utilising Pepper 21.0.0.213; it originally came with version 11.7.700.169.....
The rest, as they say, is history. I felt the discovery was too good to keep to myself; which, if I'd been the selfish type, I could so
easily have done.....
Hope that answers your questions. Any others, feel free to ask.
Edit:- Answer
me one question, if you will. Are you getting the 'ghost' entries in the Menu that I talked about? The 'FlashPeak Slimjet' entries, without an icon? By all rights, you shouldn't, since the cause of that was all stripped out of SlimJet's start-up wrapper-script
before I packaged it.....but I
would just like an answer, one way or the other. Feedback serves multiple purposes, you see..!
BTW:- I suspect that Oscar, like myself, doesn't consider himself a 'developer'; probably more like an enthusiastic 'tinkerer'. In my case, I try to get packages running that I know I want to use myself; if the outcome is favourable, then I'll try to package them in such a way as to make them available to others. Oscar's reasons are probably even more altruistic than my own; I think he enjoys taking on 'projects', just to see what
is possible. He's got a bit more experience at it than me, too..!
Mike.