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Anonymous
April 16, 2015
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Activating Adobe flash player in chrome

  • April 16, 2015
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The only flash player showing up in chrome's plugins is chrome's own pepperflash

It has been working for a long time but just dissapeared, downloading again or updating (Adobe flash player) didn't solve anything.

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    Correct answer _maria_

    Hi stef_schraven,

    Google has been planning to deprecate the NPAPI plug-in for a long time. According to this post Chromium Blog: The Final Countdown for NPAPI NPAPI plugins will be disabled by default in April 2015.  This post does contain instructions on overriding the default disabling of the plug-in.  If you have the latest version of Chrome (42) it's most likely why you're not seeing it there. More info here NPAPI deprecation: developer guide - The Chromium Projects and if you do an internet search for 'chrome npapi' you'll get lots more info on this.

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    Maria

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    Anonymous
    November 6, 2015

    Thank you

    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community ManagerCorrect answer
    Community Manager
    April 16, 2015

    Hi stef_schraven,

    Google has been planning to deprecate the NPAPI plug-in for a long time. According to this post Chromium Blog: The Final Countdown for NPAPI NPAPI plugins will be disabled by default in April 2015.  This post does contain instructions on overriding the default disabling of the plug-in.  If you have the latest version of Chrome (42) it's most likely why you're not seeing it there. More info here NPAPI deprecation: developer guide - The Chromium Projects and if you do an internet search for 'chrome npapi' you'll get lots more info on this.

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    Maria

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    Anonymous
    April 17, 2015

    Dear Maria,

    Thank you very much for your fast and clear answer.

    Do I understand it correctly by saying that after september Adobe's flash player can't be used at all anymore in chrome?

    regards,

    Stef

    _maria_
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    _maria_Community Manager
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    April 17, 2015

    Hi Stef_Schraven,

    Adobe's Flash Player will still be used in Chrome beyond September in the form of the PPAPI plugin, instead of the NPAPI plugin.  We knew about this change and developed the PPAPI plugin in preparation for it.

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    Maria

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