Google Chrome - couldn't load plugin - shockwave flash

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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.

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There appears to be a conflict due to an update to Chrome flash plugin with Adobe flash plugin

[Kow]

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

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Edited to avoid confusion - see below

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

Thank you - I will read it.

[Mungo85]

same thing happened with me overnight. Performed a software update yesterday, chrome was one of the updates (as was opera). reloaded machine to complete update & everything was fine. Went to use Chrome this morning & got the "couldn't load plugin" message. Tried clearing the cache, etc & still the same problem. Followed your suggestion of disabling

/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so

& it now works. Re-enabled the plugin & got the same "couldn't load plugin" message. I've left it disabled & works OK now. I read somewhere that chrome includes the flash plugin in the build. Must be a conflict if the adobe plugin is already installed. (I'm sure someone could explain this better than me).

Anyway, thanks for your suggestion.

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I can confirm from the link given by Kow that one suggestion from yippz seems to allow both to work:

Going into chrome://plugins and disabling 11.5.31.138 and enabling 11.2 r202, then closing Chome and restarting Chrome enables both flash versions. Disabling 11.5.31.135 is impossible unless you don't close or restart the browser.
Today (9 minutes ago)

[Marzata]

Same here.

[Morderwurst]

This works, thanks.

[AdvancedNewbie]

Thank you.