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Google Chrome Flash is Touchy


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Recently I've experienced some intermittent issues with flash in Google Chrome. Some flash applets play just fine, and others give me a message "Missing Plugin". I haven't seemed to be able to nail down any patterns about why some work and some don't. An example is this. I went to www.chucknorris.com to find out when his birthday was, and the middle of the page is apparently a flash applet. Google Chrome is using the same flash installation as my other browsers, the one installed from the repositories and not the one built into Chrome. Opening the pages in Iceweasel(Firefox) shows the problem flash applets just fine. Anybody have any suggestions? Here's some system info.

Chrome Version: 16.0.912.63 (64 bit)

OS: Debian Linux 6 (64 bit)

Flash Info from chrome://plugins

Flash - Version: 11.1 r102

Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102

Name: Shockwave Flash

Version: 11.1 r102

Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

Disable MIME types: MIME type Description File extensions application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash .swf application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player .spl

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Have tried completely removing and reinstalling flash, and deleted Chrome's settings from ~/.config, and neither of those actions fixed the issue. Everything still works fine in Iceweasel(Firefox) though.

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I would recommend un-installing and re-installing Chrome.

You should do a clean-install. Download free trial of Revo Uninstaller and install it.

After installing, open it find Google Chrome entry, right-click it and select un-install.

After the program finishes with 2nd step choose Advanced mode for scanning.

Select all registry entries and files found and click the Delete button.

EDIT : Forgot the person is using Linux.

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I would recommend un-installing and re-installing Chrome.

You should do a clean-install. Download free trial of Revo Uninstaller Pro and install it.

After installing, open it find Google Chrome entry, right-click it and select un-install.

After the program finishes with 2nd step choose Advanced mode for scanning.

Select all registry entries and files found and click the Delete button.

Then try re-installing Chrome.

not sure if Revo will work in Debian

doesn't the Linux version of Chrome come with flash included like in Win/Mac? If it does, you could go into about:plugins and at least in windows you can tel it to use the builtin or standalone version of flash

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Flash is just crap on it, I use flashblock and only enable flash if i need to use it.

True but looks like he needs to use Flash now and can't. By the way, using Opera I can enable plug-ins on per-site basis. :) And even set them to on-demand only so that plug-ins load only when I click on their placeholders. And that's in-built; no bothering of add-ons.

not sure if Revo will work in Debian

doesn't the Linux version of Chrome come with flash included like in Win/Mac? If it does, you could go into about:plugins and at least in windows you can tel it to use the builtin or standalone version of flash

Whoops - forgot he is using Linux. Right, Revo Un-installer is for Windows only. Looks like Chrome is using the built-in Flash Player in this case.

For Linux, the "Linux instructions" at http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95319 seem to be sufficient to do a clean-install of Chrome.

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Actually that site seems not to work on my Windows 7 Chrome 16 either but works in IE and Firefox But not Chrome.

You should report this issue...

+1, it also doesn't work on chrome on my Win7 machine either!

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