chrome://plugins URL no longer works
chrome://plugins was removed in Chrome 57. Here is the job where it was removed.
From the linked job:
Objective: Remove the chrome://plugins page, moving configuration for the last remaining plugin, Flash Player, to it's own explicit place in content settings (including an option, in settings, to disable).
Rationale: This change should make the controls for Flash Player more discoverable, in settings (i.e. most users probably know what Flash is, but not what a "plugin" is), and will consolidate modes related to Flash Player (e.g. Plugin Power Savings mode), into a single location.
Supporting Rationale: Since we've deprecated NPAPI, Flash Player is now our last remaining plugin (i.e. 3rd party binary modules). Those remaining "plugins" (PDF, CDM, etc...) started life as 3rd party code, but have since been built and maintained by Google... and at this point are effectively just specialized libraries for Chrome.
Dave 114
Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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Dave 114 almost 2 years
In setting up a new Windows 10 laptop, I installed the latest version of the Chrome browser.
Anyway, when I go to the chrome://plugins URL, instead of showing the plugins settings page, it gives me the message:
This site can’t be reached The webpage at chrome://plugins/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. ERR_INVALID_URL
Here's the version info for Chrome, from chrome://version:
Google Chrome 57.0.2987.110 (Official Build) (64-bit) Revision 11f66db67ea1f20d200d6f9add50fc1c345d71f7-refs/branch-heads/2987@{#832} OS Windows JavaScript V8 5.7.492.65 Flash 25.0.0.127 C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\pepflashplayer64_25_0_0_127.dll User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.110 Safari/537.36 Command Line "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
My question is, does anyone know why the chrome://plugins URL no longer works, and how can I get to its current equivalent, if at all?
The reason I need to access this is that I'm trying to get the debug Flash player working. I think I have to disable the pre-installed non-debug one.