PC World - USA (2020-10)

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Flash now, too, though it will still remain off by
default. You’ll need to finish enabling Flash
afterward by opening Chromium and
navigating to Settings > Site Settings > Flash,

then clicking the toggle next to Block sites

from running Flash. That will change the

setting to Ask first, allowing you to activate

Flash on a case-by-case basis.

HOW WELL

DOES IT RUN?

For this article, we used a

2013 Lenovo ThinkPad

X240, borrowed from our

IT department’s stash of

decommissioned laptops.

This 12.5-inch touchscreen

laptop is long in the tooth

by today’s standards,

mostly due to a spinning-

platter hard-disk

Unlike Chrome OS, you have to take one extra step to make both DRM-
protected streaming video and Adobe Flash work in CloudReady.

Avoid running into Netflix’s M7361-1254 error by enabling Chromium’s Proprietary Media Components.