Wednesday, February 6, 2013

HOWTO Fix Flash in Chrome + Ubuntu 12.10

After a recent Chrome update, I was left without flash for this browser, which by the way handles Pandora way better than Firefox does on the same platform.
A quick fix is all that is needed:
  1. Type chrome://plugins/ in to your URL bar.
  2. At the upper right, press "Details"
  3. Scroll down to the Adobe Flash Player entry, there should be two sub-entries, these are versions of Flash Chrome can use.
  4. Disable the entry that looks like this (should be the first one):
    Name:   Shockwave Flash
    Location: /home/user/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash/11.5.31.138/libpepflashplayer.so
    Type: PPAPI (out-of-process)

    MIME types:
    MIME type Description File extensions
    application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash .swf
    application/futuresplash Shockwave Flash .spl

  5. Restart the browser.
For some reason the flashplayer using the pepper API appears not to be working, so you'll just have to stick with the one that was installed to your platform through the package manager (a safer bet anyway).

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