enable flash player in chrome

[astuck1]

I am using google chrome and have already installed the most current version of flash player. I have already tried the help page to enable it, however it is not showing up in the plugins page so i don't know how to enable it and would appreciate help

[_maria_]

Hi astuck1,

Google integrated Flash Player in Chrome, so there is nothing to install, and whatever version you do install won't show up in the chrome://plugins list.

If the integrated Flash Player is not showing up in chrome://plugins I suspect your Chrome installation is corrupt.  If so, I would completely uninstall Chrome and re-install it.

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Maria

[astuck1]

ok thanks. I had just updated chrome to chromium and that is when the flash player stopped working and says it is installed but is not enabled so yes thank you I will try uninstalling chromium and going back to just chrome. hopefully that will help

[_maria_]

Hi astuck1,

What operating system and version do you have and what version of Chromium are you using?

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Maria

[jeromiec83223024 · Accepted solution]

Lets be very clear.  The open source Chromium project is not Google Chrome.  They're similar, but not the same.

Chromium does not bundle Flash Player.  Google Chrome does. 

You can install the standalone PPAPI Flash Player for Chromium, but there's a bug in Chromium that prevents it from detecting the system PPAPI Flash Player (it's probably resolved in daily builds at this point), so you have to launch Chromium from the commandline using the right commandline parameters.   If you're just trying to browse the web and not explore experimental browser features, you're probably better off with the generally available Chrome release.

There's a guide to the available Chromium commandline parameters, here:

http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/