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May 22, 2015
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why doesn't flash player 18 show in chrome plugins

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qLipp

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posting for those who stumble across this in the future (in Windows):

1) install the PPAPI flash player debugger as you normally would
2) add --disable-bundled-ppapi-flash to your target path in chrome properties, like this :

works for me!

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dews

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Seems that every time Chrome updates - this is a problem. That said, adding --disable-bundled-ppapi-flash as qLipp suggests, does the trick. Thank you!

jeromiec83223024

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Yeah, it keeps getting broken by various unrelated changes in Chrome. If it's busted again, I'm happy to report it. Ugh.

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dews

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Having the same problem. The install does not fail - however, the player does not show up in chrome://plugins.

Oddly enough, I was able to install the previous beta (6th) - now even if I try to install that one, nothing shows up in the chrome://plugins

I've tried uninstalling and installing a few times. Also tried uninstalling Chrome completely - still same problem.

jeromiec83223024

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Chrome dropped support for the NPAPI plug-in, so it no longer shows in chrome://plugins.

You can enable it temporarily for the moment, but it's going away completely pretty soon:

https://allinlearning.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204245434-Re-enabling-NPAPI-Plugins-in-Google-Chrome-After-Early-April-of-2015‌

The best way to get betas in Chrome is to just use Chrome Canary. Google's beta program is different than ours, so the builds aren't necessarily synced, but we give them weekly drops that they drop to dev and canary channels as they see fit.

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dews

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@Jeromie - I've been seeing the PPAPI debugger showing in Plugins for a little while now. I noticed the NPAPI was no longer showing up a few beta releases back, however, Chrome 4.3, we cannot install the PPAPI debugger

I see that Canary has the later player, however, in my Canary 4.5 I CANNOT install the debugger either. I've just tried the latest .162 released today and it does not show up in Canary 4.5 or Chrome 4.3

For other devs, if the debugger is still installing for you on Chrome then whatever you do, DON'T click "About Google Chrome". As soon as you do, Chrome will auto update and you'll no longer be able to use Chrome to debug. To get around this on windows I did a "Previous Versions" restore on C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome - which did the trick.

This has to just be an oversight on Google's part, right? I've submitted a bug report detailing the issue but clearly to no avail. Can someone @ Adobe give Google a kick?! I'd hate to have to stop using Chrome for debugging!

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Anonymous

same problem occured to me...but i'mnot able to fix it...

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