Possible fix for Chrome/Pepperflash/Shockwave crashes on Linux

Found at https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=410805

## download stable to /tmp/chrome
mkdir -p /tmp/chrome
cd /tmp/chrome
wget http://mirror.pcbeta.com/google/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_37.0.2062.94-1_amd64.deb

## split out the archive
ar vx google-chrome-stable_37.0.2062.94-1_amd64.deb

## extract data
tar --lzma -xvf data.tar.lzma

## copy libpepflashplayer.so & manifest.json to /opt/chrome
cp opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/* /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/

# open chrome and test...

You may want to keep a copy of libpepflashplayer.so & manifest.json  around to replace upgraded versions with until this is fixed. Be sure that you enable click-to-play to help prevent malicious flash programs.

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