For me, “chromium” is working fine.
I first saw the change on Tumbleweed. I went with the option to uninstall “chromium-ffmpeg”. And subsequent testing showed that all was fine with “chromium”.
When I saw the same update on Leap 42.2, I opted for the choice to uninstall “chromium-ffmpeg” – I think this was called a vendor change, though that seems a bit misleading.
Yesterday, in a “zypper up” (with 42.2), I saw “pepper-flash” removed, and regular flash updated. Testing, shows that flash is working fine with “chromium”. I do not have “flash-player-ppapi” installed. Instead, it looks as if the regular “flash-player” now has both an NPAPI and a PPAPI interface.
I’m not sure what “flash-player-ppapi” is for, since “chromium” is working without it. (I checked by playing a sudoku game that depends on flash, and that worked in “chromium”. Right-click on the game gave me adobe-flash information.