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Robert Mc Dowell
Robert Mc Dowell
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February 19, 2018
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flash pepper debugger version installation in windows 10

  • February 19, 2018
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Hi

How to replace the builtin flash plugin from chrome/opera/yandex/edge

with the debugger version?

thanks

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      _maria_
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      _maria_Community Manager
      Community Manager
      February 20, 2018

      For Edge: At this time Microsoft does not offer the ActiveX Control content debugger for IE/Edge on Windows 10.

      For Chrome/Opera, the content debuggers are available at Adobe Flash Player - Debug Downloads

      Yandex isn't officially supported, as such, can't say how it handles the content debugger

      While Gogole embeds Flash Player in Chrome, if the manually installed Flash Player version is equal to, or greater than, the embedded version, Chrome will load the user installed version.

      For example, the embedded version is saved at C:\Users\labuser\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\PepperFlash\28.0.0.161\pepflashplayer.dll and Chrome loads Flash from this location


      After installing the content debugger (of the same version), Chrome loads Flash from C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\pepflashplayer64_28_0_0_161.dll

      To check where Chrome is loading Flash from, launch Chrome and navigate to chrome://flash, look for the Flash Plugin version and path

      <edit>

      Opera doesn't have a builtin Flash plugin, it  uses the user installed Flash Player (release or debugger)

      Robert Mc Dowell
      Robert Mc DowellAuthor
      Legend
      February 20, 2018

      ok but about Chrome for win 10 the problem is the pepperflash installer it says that pepperflash cannot be installed

      because it's managed by the browsers itself...

      jeromiec83223024
      jeromiec83223024
      Inspiring
      February 20, 2018

      Replacing Flash Player in Chrome is possible, but sub-optimal.  You'd basically need to install the system-wide PPAPI Flash Player, then look in chrome://flash and copy the relevant files to the Chrome-specific location.  You may also break Chrome's automatic updates in the process, etc.  We generally don't recommend this.


      Personally, I use Opera (it's a Chromium fork) for running the debugger instead of trying to mess with Chrome's regular Flash Player installation.

      You *could* launch Chrome with commandline options to point to the system install of Flash Player and get the debugger that way, but it's way easier to just use Opera. 

      See the ppapi-flash-path option if you want to go that route:

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

      Details for Flash Player's installation paths and stuff can be found in the system administrator's guide, here:

      Adobe Flash Player Administration Guide for Flash Player | Adobe Developer Connection

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