I'm in Xubuntu LTS, Google Chrome stable latest.
I have been using Xubuntu without Adobe Flash package for quite some time, and things works fine.
Then this one day, for some reason I don't remember, I installed the legacy Flash Player package (I think it's flashplugin-installer
?), and suddenly ALL blink-based browsers (Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi) lost Flash Player in their plugin setting page, and can not play Flash contents.
So I Googled, installed adobe-flashplugin
and pepperflashplugin-nonfree
instead, and Flash plugins returned -- except for Google Chrome.
Now in my Chrome, all flash contents will show a warning "Adobe Flash Player is out of date" (even if I disable Flash Player in chrome://plugins), and Chrome refused to play them.
Some version info:
If, however, I do this:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/ /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash # There's no PepperFlash folder by default
then chrome://components will show
Adobe Flash Player - Version 23.0.0.207
But chrome://plugins and chrome://version still show 23.0.0.185
, and Flash contents still show the "out of date" warning and Chrome still refuse to play them.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome with no avail. Any way I can fix this?
Edit:
It seems this relates to how Google Chrome distribute Flash Player in version 54+, so I used the "Check for update" button in chrome://components, and it says
Updater started
But eventually says
Component not updated
Linking everything from /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/
to ~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash/
didn't seem to help.
Finally:
It seems Chrome insist on using proxy "DIRECT"
when it checks for component update (https://clients2.google.com/service/update2?cup2key=...
, see it in chrome://net-internals/#events
), despite me setting PAC proxy in dconf
and Chrome extension, so our lovely GFW happily blocked the request. Found a VPN and the component successfully upgraded.
Edited 2017-02-28
It has happened some things with Flash recently:
pepperflashplugin-nonfree
package is currently broken, even if it is about to be fixed (new download location).adobe-flashplugin
provides Flash plugins for other browsers, both Firefox and Chromium/Opera/Vivaldi.
Try this:
Remove both adobe-flashplugin
and pepperflashplugin-nonfree
.
sudo apt purge adobe-flashplugin pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Open Google Chrome and check if it made a difference.
My experience is that you may need to close and reopen Chrome a couple of times before Flash starts working.
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