"Adobe flash player is out of date" in Chrome for Opensuse

Report · Mar 09, 2017

As the title, "Adobe flash player is out of date".

Adobe Flash Player - Version: 24.0.0.154

Browser is Chrome, version: 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit)

and platform is OpenSUSE, version: openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64)

I reinstall the adobe flash player and reinstall the Chrome browser. But it didn't worded.

How can I fix this???

Report · Mar 09, 2017

Hi mikeyang088

Please provide the following screenshots:

Launch Chrome and navigate to chrome://components
post a screenshot of the Adobe Flash Player entry
Navigate to chrome://plugins
Click the +Details link in the upper right
post a screenshot of the Adobe Flash Player plugin details

Thank you.

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Maria

Report · Mar 09, 2017

Sure, thanks for your reply!

Report · Mar 10, 2017

Hi,

Thank you for posting the screenshots. Basically, when Chrome is installed it doesn't automatically install Flash Player at the same time. It'll wait about 6 minutes or install it when the user views Flash content, whichever occurs first. It appears that in your case, this isn't happening. Did you click Check for Update in chrome://component updater? If so, what was the result?

I tried to reproduce this behaviour yesterday, on openSUSE 42.1. I installed Google Chrome on a system that had never had Chrome installed on. When I attempted to view Flash content, Chrome automatically downloaded the latest version of Flash, which is expected behaviour. You may want to try updating Chrome (Google released version 57 yesterday) and see if that works. You may have to uninstall Chrome first. Essentially, this is Chrome behaviour that is not functioning correctly. Adobe hands-off the Player to Google and they integrate it with Chrome and all updates come from Chrome, not Adobe.

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Maria