Enable Adobe Flash For Chrome Mac

• To update the Flash Player on a Google Chrome browser, you’ll need to go to the „Components“ menu, which is easy to access.
• If you run into an error while trying to update your Flash Player, you can also reinstall it, which only takes a few moments.
• Google Chrome will stop supporting Flash Player on December 31, 2020 – after that point, you won’t be able to run or update Flash in Google Chrome.
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Adobe Flash Player is a program that runs in your web browser, and allows you to watch videos, hear audio, and use other interactive features across the web.

Type about:plugins into the address bar at the top of a Chrome browser window. Click Details at the upper-right corner of the page. Find the Flash (or Shockwave Flash) listing on the Plug-ins page and click the corresponding Enable button. Close all Chrome windows and restart the browser. Adobe Flash will be going away soon, but for now, you can easily install and enable Adobe Flash Player on a Mac computer using a Safari browser. Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced.

For a long time, most things on the internet ran on Flash – online games, advertisements, entire websites. Even YouTube once used Flash to play videos.

However, because of security issues that made it easy for data breaches to occur, Flash has fallen out of favor, and most websites have switched to the newer HTML5.

This will be coming to a head on December 31, 2020, when Flash will stop running entirely in every major browser – Google Chrome included.

In the meantime, though, since some legacy sites still run on Flash, you may want to know how to keep it updated in Google Chrome. Here’s how to do it on a Mac or PC.

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How to update Flash Player in Google Chrome

1. Open Google Chrome on your Mac or PC.

2. In the address bar, type „chrome://components“ (without the quotes) and then press Enter.

3. In the Components menu, scroll down until you find „Adobe Flash Player“ – it’s probably near the bottom of the list. When you find it, click the „Check for Update“ button underneath.

4. If the status underneath changes to „Component updated,“ you’ve successfully updated to the latest version of Flash. If it reads „Component not updated,“ it means you already have the latest version.

If the status instead reads „Update error,“ you may want to try completely reinstalling Flash. For your safety, make sure to only do this from the Adobe website:

1.Receiver for mac. Go to adobe.com/go/chrome.

2. Select your computer’s operating system and version – in this case, since you’re using Chrome, the version will be the one labeled „PPAPI.“

3. Click „Download Now,“ and follow the steps in the file you download to reinstall Flash.

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Objective

This is particularly useful for debugging recording issues from Adobe Connect perspective specially in few versions prior to 9.6 where recordings only have an option to launch in flash player mode. Could be used for debugging meeting issues as well if accessed in flash player mode.

Environment

• Adobe Connect Hosted/On-Premise
• Google Chrome with MAC OS client

Steps

Install the Flash Player Content Debugger

• Goto https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html#fp15 and download the installer for appropriate Mac OS version
• Choose the PPAPI installer

Check the correct version is installed

• Open http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html
• Click Check Now, it should show the latest build installed.
• Alternately you can run chrome://version command from Chrome browser to verify the version.

Note : It might not necessarily show that debug version is installed but the key is it should show the latest we added.

Enable logging

• Create mm.cfg file from sample instructions here : https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/configure-debugger-version-flash-player.html
• Place the file at <HOME>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Pepper Data/Shockwave Flash/System/ folder.
• You might need to search the above folder location under User Library folder or System library depending upon where Chrome is installed or permissions.
• Note, if you find the correct Shockwave Flash path but you don’t see a System folder there, create it manually and copy the mm.cfg file.
• Ensure to delete any other copies of mm.cfg(mm.txt.cfg/mm.cfg.txt) file at any other location to avoid any conflicts.

Log file location

• Open a recording or meeting in flash player to verify if logs are getting created
• They should be found under : <HOME>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Pepper Data/Shockwave Flash/WritableRoot/Logs/flashlog.txt

Additional Information

Additional mm.cfg properties can be added from here if needed : https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/configure-debugger-version-flash-player.html