Vista SP2 Chrome 49.0.2623.112 Unresponsive Flash Player 27.0.0.170

This is not a Flash Player problem.  Google embeds Flash Player in Chrome 49 and all updates were released by Google, not Adobe.  Google no longer supports Chrome 49 as such they are no longer releasing updates for it.  The embedded Flash Player is saved to a specific location, which is NOT the same location Flash Player installs to when you install it.  Due to this, Chrome doesn't know you have installed a newer version of Flash and therefore doesn't use it.

MKDan  wrote Adobe planned to kill Flash by the year 2020.

That means we have over 2 years left to protect users who still depend on Flash Player.

MKDan  wrote Google also want content developers to use HTML 5. Maybe, they have started to kill Flash from the older operating systems and browsers.

Are you suggesting Google made unauthorized changes to my browser without my permission?

MKDan  wrote Not a answers to your question, you can try other browsers like Yandex, Firefox, Opera, Safari or IE.

Already have those, you're right this is not an answer to my question.

MKDan  wrote Soon websites will stop using Flash and also all the browsers will stop supporting Flash.

Last time I checked over 2 years is not considered soon for most people's standards.

I really hope Adobe isn't planning to leave us all unprotected between now and 2020 cause that is unacceptable.

MKDan​ a user at the time of this post with 0 points here has posted in Problems with Flash Player - Chrome​​ Flash Player blocked in Chrome on Windows XP​​​ My computer is all kinds of screwed up...  is my Flash problem solvable?​ over the span of about 1 week around the same time this Flash Player problem has started occurring, he hasn't posted anywhere else here, and does not suffer from the problem being reported on, coincidence?

MKDan  wrote I'm using Windows 8.

Windows 8 is 2 versions up from Windows Vista, the system with the error I'm reporting on, how is Windows 8 relevant here?

MKDan  wrote My Chrome Version is 61.0.3163.100 (Official Build) and is up to date.

The last most current supported Chrome version for Vista is 49.0.2623.112, a 12 version gap from 61.0.3163.100, again how is this relevant to what is being reported here?

MKDan  wrote My pepflashplayer.dll version is 27.0.0.170 and you can try it:- 27.0.0.170.rar

As I stated in my original post, I tried pepflashplayer.dll version 27.0.0.170 and it failed to work as others here have also reported, thus I reverted back to 22.0.0.209 for the time being.

The problem with using the old pepflashplayer.dll version 22.0.0.209 is security concerns and of course the annoying info bar on every page I visit containing flash.

MKDan  wrote So you can't update your Chrome by visiting the following URL? chrome://settings/help

MKDan  wrote Google has stopped support for XP and Vista.

I think you answered your own question? To be clear, no I cannot update beyond Chrome version 49.0.2623.112 unless Google suddenly decides to start supporting us again.

MKDan  wrote Go to chrome://flags and disable HTML over flash.

Bad idea, sets users up for security issues, and this option is not available anymore so it's irrelevant.

God willing an Adobe employee will reveal a version of Flash Player that will eliminate the annoying info bar, I realize I can mute the info bar with -disable-infobars command, however for security reasons I would much rather have a functioning up-to-date version of pepflashplayer.dll obviously.

As of the time of this post, I would like to thank the 195 viewers and 4 users who suffer from the same issue as me for sharing my concern.

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