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Though you can now enable Flash on Google Chrome for Mac, the Linux version still doesn't have support. However, if you're willing to run Chromium instead of the official Google build, you're in luck.

Using the current version of Chromium from Launchpad, adding Flash to the speedy browser is a breeze. H3g3m0n posted a tutorial on how to enable Flash in Chromium but that post is outdated and some more tweaking needs to be done for this to work:

To install under Ubuntu:
sudo su
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main #chromium-browser" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chromium.list
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

To enable Flash support:
sudo cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins

While it used to work with a symbolik link, it doesn't anymore, so you will have to copy the libflashplayer.so in the /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins folder when an update is available.

Then, you must run Chromium like this:
chromium-browser --enable-plugins

For extensions AND plugins: start browser with the following:
chromium-browser --enable-greasemonkey --enable-user-scripts --enable-extensions --enable-plugins