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Aug 7, 2012 10:02 AM UTC
Question

Problem with badge installation in Chrome on Windows

Dear Adobe,

The badge installation stopped working recently, probably after last Google Chrome update. Problem look like this: after clicking "install now" badge the confirmation window to install Adobe AIR appears ("Would you like to install adobe AIR?"). I click yes, download progress bar goes from 0 to 100%, and then error message appears ("Download error. Try again?"). Click yes - everything repeats.

Also, in Chrome on Windows there is text under the badge: "In order to run <app name>, this installer will also set up Adobe AIR" - but latest AIR is already installed. We used standard installation badge, provided with the SDK.

OS Windows 7 ver 6.1 (build 7600)

Browser Google Chrome 21.0.1180.60 m

Flash Player 11.3.31.222

AIR 3.3.0.3670

The problem appears only in Google Chrome, and only on Windows. In IE and FF everything seems to work fine. In Chrome 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X 10.7.2 it works fine as well.

You can look at the error here: http://www.jivosite.ru/install_application

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UMHDubai
Participant
Oct 19, 2019 10:42 AM UTC

Sometimes it occurs when we install chrome extension of adobe also. Hope Google and adobe recognize this thread. 

 

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Participant
Apr 15, 2013 4:05 PM UTC

why does not fix this simple bugs? i don't understand about adobe and google.

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Participant
Nov 13, 2012 2:00 PM UTC

I'm having the same issue now in Google Chrome on Mac.

Can someone verify this?

Chrome version: Version 23.0.1271.64

Mac Os X: 10.7.5

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Participating Frequently
Nov 13, 2012 2:32 PM UTC

Hi Vince,

Yes -- Chrome version 23, released last week, introduced this issue on Mac as well. 

Chris, as I mentioned last week on the Chrome tracker, we really would have appreciated a heads-up that the problem was going to be spreading.  It's not realistic to expect developers to always be playing reactive catch-up; if we had been given advance notice, at least we could have proactively warned users and updated code. 

(I would have posted this message last week, but the Adobe forums were broken as well and login didn't work...)

Thanks,

Nathan

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Participating Frequently
Nov 13, 2012 3:08 PM UTC

the same here, chrome on mac not working... things get worse...

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Inspiring
Sep 18, 2012 3:54 AM UTC

Oh, I am encountering the same problem,  it really affect the user experience, please help.

Thanks.

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chris.campbell
Legend
Sep 18, 2012 9:09 PM UTC

We're working on it.  I'll see if there any update that I can post.

Chris

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DMcQ
Known Participant
Oct 1, 2012 9:13 PM UTC

Chris, do you have any updates on this issue?

Thanks and Regards,


Daniel

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paleozogt
Participating Frequently
Aug 17, 2012 3:08 PM UTC

Looks like Chrome 21's sandboxing broke more things than just Air.swf.  It seems that Adobe Connect (which is based on a Flash Add-In?) is also broken:

     http://helpx.adobe.com/adobe-connect/kb/google-chrome-21-browser-incompatibility.html

The workaround (disabling the PPAPI) is the same.

I'm somewhat baffled that Adobe didn't see this coming.

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chris.campbell
Legend
Aug 18, 2012 12:22 AM UTC

Last I heard we had at least one developer investigating this issue.  I'll ask for an update on Monday.

Chris

Ps. Yes, Connect was affected too.

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Known Participant
Aug 18, 2012 12:45 AM UTC

Thanks for the update, we are all crossing our fingers over here !!!!!!!!

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Known Participant
Aug 13, 2012 12:03 PM UTC

If what Erik says is true (discontinue this feature)...I think is a new bad action from Adobe that will continue to maintain the perception that Adobe is driving things really bad and is not taking care of customers.

This is other drop that will make people continue to shift from Adobe to other vendors taking into account that products are left in the cold from one day to another.

What happen to Adobe?

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Known Participant
Aug 13, 2012 2:27 PM UTC

Another bad publication from Adobe, and I think no one would it use it even for Video or games, people will be scared of committing to the platform.

Adobe said they are "Doubling down on Adobe AIR", after more than a week, still no fix, sure seems like a bet to me

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Participating Frequently
Aug 9, 2012 12:24 AM UTC

This bug has also affected our app. All Chrome users cannot install our AIR app using the badge installer.

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Known Participant
Aug 9, 2012 1:55 PM UTC

Adobe and Google, come on? You can't just break the AIR Badge and leave it like that for days....

People are coming to our site and can't install our AIR app, this has to be fixed ASAP!!!!

We are losing business because of this bug.

FIX ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Adobe, please reply....

See issue here: http://mediasignage.com/html/get_started.html

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Aug 7, 2012 2:29 PM UTC

I have exactly the same problem. It works on IE and FireFox. But in chrome I can't install AIR.

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chris.campbell
Legend
Aug 7, 2012 8:13 PM UTC

Thanks for bringing this up.  When you have a chance, please visit this bug and add a comment:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140854&q=air&colspec=ID%20Pri%20Mstone%20ReleaseBlock%20OS%20Area%20Feature%20Status%20Owner%20Summary

I'm going to talk with the Chrome team to find out the status.

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chris.campbell
Legend
Aug 7, 2012 10:46 PM UTC

I was able to work around this by doing the following, I realize it's a cumbersome workaround but it does clearly show that this is a PPAPI (pepper) related issue.

  1. Navigate to "about:plugins" in the Chrome address bar
  2. Click the Details link in the upper right part of the page to expand all items
  3. Locate the "Shockwave Flash" entries (there will be 2 or 3 of these)
  4. Click "Disable" for the PPAPI copy (most likely the first one listed), which has a version number of 11.3.31.222
  5. Restart Chrome for good measure and try again
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