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Click the 3 dots / Settings icon at the top right of Chrome then select ‘New incognito window’.

If you have lots of extensions installed, the quickest way to test this is to open a new Incognito window – this disables all extensions: Sometimes a misbehaving (or conflicting) Chrome extension can cause Flash to stop working. Test in a New Incognito Window (Private Browsing)

After it is installed, open Chrome again – if you still get Shockwave Flash plugin crashes then move to the next fixĤ.

“flashplayer32pp_xa_install.exe” and complete the installation

Close Chrome and then run the installer file you just downloaded e.g.Un-tick all the Optional offers then click the ‘Download Now’ button and follow the instructions to save the Flash Player plugin installer file to your computer.In Step 2, select the PPAPI plugin (as at August 2019 it’s called ‘FP 32 for Opera and Chromium – PPAPI’.Visit the Adobe website and select your Operating System in step 1.

#DISABLE HARDWARE ACCELERATION ADOBE FLASH CHROME UPDATE#

If you do see an ‘Update Google Chrome’ button, click it to update and then press Relaunch when it has finished – try playing Flash content again and see if it no longer crashes.

If you do not see an ‘Update Google Chrome’ button, you’re already using the latest version – skip to the next fix.

Click the 3 dots / Settings icon at the top right of Chrome.

If you see “Component updated” you now have the latest version – try playing Flash content again and see if it no longer crashes.

If you see “Component not updated” you already had the latest version – skip to the next fix.

Scroll down to ‘Adobe Flash Player’ and click on its ‘Check for update’ button.

Type chrome://components into the address bar and press Enter to visit the Chrome Components page.

But you can check this in Chrome Components: The plugin is automatically updated by Chrome so, as long as you have the latest version of Chrome, you should always have the latest version of the plugin too.

Tip: if you see ‘fixes’ that recommend disabling 1 of the 2 Shockwave Flash plugins in Chrome, that advice is obsolete – there is no second plugin. Since 2015, Chrome uses only its integrated Flash plugin – in my experience this has greatly reduced the number of Flash crashes in Chrome, but they can still happen so here are 7 steps to try to fix it. A W3Techs report shows that Flash was used by 28.5% of websites back in 2011 – that has gone down to just 3.5% in 2020. In recent years, Flash Player usage has been in terminal decline – websites have increasingly switched over to newer and more powerful open standards such as HTML5. With hindsight, that decision by Apple, to disallow Flash on the most popular phones and tablets in history, was the beginning of a protracted end for Flash Player… Perhaps its biggest setback was the infamous ‘Thoughts on Flash’ letter by Steve Jobs in 2010 where he criticized it for poor security and banned Flash Player from iOS products such as the iPad and iPhone.

Do You Still Need Flash in 2020?Ī decade ago Shockwave Flash was still very widely used by websites to display videos and games – as late as 2013 Adobe reported that over 1 billion PCs had Flash Player installed to play, for example, Facebook games and YouTube videos.īut, as a closed (proprietary) standard, Flash always had its critics – it acquired an unwanted reputation for security vulnerabilities, crashes and poor performance.

#DISABLE HARDWARE ACCELERATION ADOBE FLASH CHROME INSTALL#

In fact, since 2015, Chrome only uses the integrated plugin – even if you install standalone Flash plugins for other browsers, they will not be used by Chrome. They suggest disabling one to stop the other crashing – ignore them, that hasn’t been true for 4 years… Note: some websites give outdated ‘help’ about having 2 Flash plugins – the integrated one and a separate standalone plugin. This plugin is part of Chrome – you do not need to install a separate Flash Player plugin (as you do for some web browsers like Firefox).

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What Is the Shockwave Flash Chrome Plugin?įlash Player is free software by Adobe (of Photoshop fame) for viewing video and audio files created on the Adobe Flash platform – such files are in the SWF format (short for ShockWave Flash).Īdobe Flash Player runs within Google Chrome as a plugin – it is now the last remaining plugin (module developed by a third party) in Chrome.

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