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Fredrik Ell
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February 21, 2016
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Flash player doesn't work in Win 10

  • February 21, 2016
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My flashplayer doesn't work in win10, neither in Explorer or edge. Adobe flash player is enabled in the settings, but still not working.

Does anyone know how to solve my problem

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    rbasey85
    Participant
    May 10, 2017

    For me,This is what worked

    I went to chrome://flags/#enable-npapi

    searched for Flash found and bingo. it worked

    Run all Flash content when Flash setting is set to

    And changed the condition from Default to Allow.

    jeromiec83223024
    jeromiec83223024
    Inspiring
    May 10, 2017

    Each browser has a distinct copy of Flash.  Chrome and IE/Edge each have one built in to the browser.  Firefox uses the NPAPI Flash Player, which I'm guessing that you installed at some point.

    By turning on NPAPI Flash Player in Chrome, you're having that browser fall back to an older browser plugin technology that's quite a bit less secure than what would normally ship with Chrome.

    I believe in the Chrome instance, if you turned enable-npapi back off, and also turned off prefer HTML over Flash, you'd probably end up with the built-in PPAPI Flash Player for Chrome working the way that you want.  (Background: Google has started making changes to how and when Flash content will run, which most websites will probably interpret as Flash not being installed.)

    Anyway, what you did will certainly work, but I would not recommend it to others discovering this thread, as it walks back the last ~5 years of security work to harden the sandbox for plug-ins running in Chrome.

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    rbasey85
    Participant
    May 10, 2017

    I am having the same issue. I have Adobe Flash Player - Version: 25.0.0.171 I am running Win10 home Version 1703
    Win10 in its latest update is blocking Flash from working on all browsers. ie, edge and chrome. I go to m.mlb.com to watch a game and get the following error message:

    You have launched an event that is only accessible with Adobe Flash Player.

    To watch this event, please install the latest version. Download»
    If Flash is installed, please enable the Adobe Flash plugin in your browser settings. For instructions, please click here».

    How do I get WIN10 to recognize Flash?

    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 10, 2017

    Edge and Chrome use two completely different plugins, and they are not interchangeable.  Edge uses the embedded ActiveX Control, installed via Windows Updates.  Chrome uses the PPAPI plugin.  Google embeds Flash Player in Chrome, but you can also download and install the PPAPI plugin from adobe.com.

    Most browsers these days are forcing a Flash click-to-play model, meaning Flash Player is disabled by default, or set to only 'ask sites to run Flash' and defaulting to HTML5 content.  If the content isn't coded to accurately detect Flash Player, even when it's disabled, you'll get the behaviour you're seeing instead of a message to enable the disabled Flash Palyer.

    Please refer the following tech notes and help documents for enabling Flash Player:

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    Kratika Agarwal
    Participating Frequently
    February 22, 2016

    Hi,

    Could you please share more information:

    What is the exact issue you are facing? Share any Flash URL site.

    Please check from below link what is the Flash player version the browser has?

    Thanks

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    Fredrik EllAuthor
    Participant
    March 1, 2016

    HI

    My version of flash is

    You have version 20,0,0,306 installed

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    jeromiec83223024
    jeromiec83223024
    Inspiring
    March 4, 2016

    First, confirm that ActiveX Filtering is configured to allow Flash content:

    https://forums.adobe.com/thread/867968

    Internet Explorer 11 and Edge introduce a number of changes both to how the browser identifies itself to remote web servers, and to how it processes JavaScript intended to target behaviors specific to Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, this means that content on some sites will be broken until the content provider changes their site to conform to the new development approach required by modern versions of IE.

    You can try to work around these issues by using Compatibility View:

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/use-compatibility-view#ie=ie-11

    If that is too inconvenient, using Google Chrome may be a preferable alternative.

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