How do I get adobe flash working in Chrome or Chromium on Ringtail?
Answering my own question. Hopefully someone will find this useful.
This is useful if completely removed chrome and/or chromium didn't fix the problem.
i.e. apt-get purge google-chrome
Didn't make your flash player work correctly.
The answer was to remove all the cache files in .tmp directory. I actually found a libpepflash.so file inside there and removing the whole .tmp directory made it work.
What's interesting is that this page shows that it couldn't find a suitable plugin to display the content: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/
But this page: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ Shows: "You have version 11,7,700,203 installed"
Now youtube videos are actually displaying. What I found before is that youtube videos were actually working but had no video (just sound) and I was confused by the shockwave/welcome page which had the "no suitable plugin" message.
So if you are having issues with chrome - delete .tmp from your home directory.
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hookenz
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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hookenz over 1 year
I have recently upgraded to Ringtail and for some reason flash isn't working on either Chrome or Chromium. It works in firefox but I prefer Chrome as my browser so switching to firefox when a website containing flash appears is a bit annoying.
According to just about every source, flash it built into Chrome and should just work even on Ubuntu. I tried removing chrome and reinstalling it, but the problem persists.
I've checked about://plugins and flash is enabled. Yet when you visit http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/
What I see is "No plugin available to display this content".
about://version shows
Google Chrome 28.0.1500.52 (Official Build 207119) OS Linux Blink 537.36 (@152651) JavaScript V8 3.18.5.8 Flash 11.7.700.203 User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.52 Safari/537.36 Command Line /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --blacklist-accelerated-compositing --flag-switches-begin --enable-sync-favicons --sync-keystore-encryption --flag-switches-end Executable Path /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
How do I get flash working in Chrome or Chromium?
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Freedom_Ben almost 11 yearsHave you tried installing the adobe flash plugin?
sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
. I assume you have if it's working in FireFox but thought I'd check. -
ananaso almost 11 yearsI've never had any issues with flash playback in Chromium, so the fact that the adobe site doesn't recognize it makes me think it has to do with Adobe's site.
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hookenz almost 11 yearsYes the adobe-flashplugin is actually installed. In any case, Chrome is meant to use pepperflash which is there. Also it's showing up as a plugin in chrome and is enabled. But it doesn't work.
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