Google Chrome - couldn't load plugin - shockwave flash

[vasa1]

Refer to http://code.google.com/p/chromium/is...tail?id=173790

Thanks for the link. Many of the posters there are not providing much detail. The OP there is on 13.04 and feels it started after upgrading the kernel to 3.8 and is using Chrome dev.

[ernestj]

thank you. did the first thing in the opening thread and worked!!!

solved. i love Ubuntu forums.

[jajodo]

Hope this helps someone. I was having trouble inactivating the problematic flash 11.5.31.138 and enabling 11.2 r202. Each time I restarted chrome 11.5.31.138 was reactivated and the flash error persisted.

Closing all extra tabs including Gmail allowed successful inactivation. I suspect Gmail was reactivating the built in flash or blocking inactivation.

[as8]

I tried this and now it says:

"Adobe Flash player has been disabled"

any ideas?

[as8]

I tried this and now it says:

"Adobe Flash player has been disabled"

any ideas?

I figured it out by expanding the individual plugin files and disabling some combination of them.

[Frogs Hair]

This happened last night after playing one video. I deleted the entire profile folder and re-installed with no joy. I went back to Iron which is a Chromium based browser like Chrome and it plays fine. Iron doesn't use Pepper Flash so I don't know if that is a factor or not.

[deadflowr]

This happened last night after playing one video. I deleted the entire profile folder and re-installed with no joy. I went back to Iron which is a Chromium based browser like Chrome and it plays fine. Iron doesn't use Pepper Flash so I don't know if that is a factor or not.

You're most likely using flash 11.2.

Sadly, the pepperflash has been problematic ever since adobe dropped support for regular flash on linux.
Every version of chrome I've run on Ubuntu (since pepperflash 11.3), I eventually have to disable that plugin because something goes boink, yet ver 11.2 has never had a problem.

Of course, when a new version of chrome comes, I re-enable it, then it works great for a couple of days then stuff like audio syncing goes plop.
It's been a vicious circle.

[Horbo]

Just delete (or rename if you're paranoid/cautious) ~/.config/google-grome/PepperFlash/

Restart chrome.

Problem fixed.

[bishop__]

Ok, this might be useful for people.

When I used Chrome in Ubuntu 12.04 when I went to watch a video on youtube (and then any similar site) an error message of couldn't load plugin.

After re-installing Chrome which didn't work and checking around previous threads etc, I went into Tools-Task Manager noticed the Plug-in Shockwave flash was N/A.

I then typed chrome://plugins/ in the address bar, extended the libpepflashplayer and disabled /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so

And then it worked again?

Anyone know why? It was fine until tonight.

This helps alot!

Thanks!

[awebtech]

Worked for me. Thanks !