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#1 2013-02-02 22:19:58
- Johnorizabal
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Google Chrome videos: "Couldn't load plug-in", flash not working.
For some reason today I can't play any sort of YouTube videos, and flash player is simply not working anymore. This happen spontaneously, and I am almost certain that I didn't trigger anything that could do something to this degree. I've installed flashplugin from the AUR, did not fix it. Though YouTube and flash is working in Firefox.
I got a notification from Google-chrome that it has been updated but that did not fix this problem.
Thank you for any responses.
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#2 2013-02-02 22:48:31
- Meyithi
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Re: Google Chrome videos: "Couldn't load plug-in", flash not working.
google-chrome from aur has it's own flash plugin, pepper flash. You should navigate to chrome://plugins/ and disable the standalone flash plugin or uninstall it if you don't need flash anywhere else.
chromium can use the https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chro … sh-stable/ package to playback flash, and it's great! Any reason you are using google-chome over chromium? Also, with chromium-pepper-flash stable you wouldn't need standalone flash unless you really need flash elsewhere (like in firefox)
Last edited by Meyithi (2013-02-02 22:52:04)
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#3 2013-02-02 22:50:49
- cmays90
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Re: Google Chrome videos: "Couldn't load plug-in", flash not working.
A recent update caused issues with Linux's Chrome browser and flash. This only affects Linux based Chrome builds.
A workaround is to remove ~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash
rm -r ~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlashOffline
#4 2013-02-02 22:53:47
- Meyithi
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Re: Google Chrome videos: "Couldn't load plug-in", flash not working.
A recent update caused issues with Linux's Chrome browser and flash. This only affects Linux based Chrome builds.
A workaround is to remove ~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash
rm -r ~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash
Working fine on Chromium with chromium-pepper-flash stable - must just be a google-chrome thing.
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#5 2013-02-02 22:58:10
- Johnorizabal
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Re: Google Chrome videos: "Couldn't load plug-in", flash not working.
A recent update caused issues with Linux's Chrome browser and flash. This only affects Linux based Chrome builds.
A workaround is to remove ~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash
rm -r ~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash
Worked fine thanks!
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#6 2013-02-04 14:59:02
- dk0r
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Re: Google Chrome videos: "Couldn't load plug-in", flash not working.
rm -r ~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash
Thanks
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#7 2013-03-09 00:20:00
- jelabarre59
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Re: Google Chrome videos: "Couldn't load plug-in", flash not working.
In my case, I have NEVER had Flash working, on any of the browsers I have tried (Firefox 19, Chromium 25, Google Chrome-dev 27, Opera). It's a fresh installation on a laptop I'm trying to set up for my 7-yr-old (to visit funbrain.com, Nick Jr, Disney Jr, etc). Unfortunately, all these educational/game sites need Flash player.
It's an old ThinkPad T23 (1G memory), and I've been trying to find *something* that is light enough to run on this system, yet will still run Flash (Ubuntu/Mint ran the sites too slow, and XP won't work with the USB wifi adapter). Certainly not the best machine for this, but it's what I have that still works.
Of course, you know that I'll get it working and find out the browser/flashplayer performance is just as unusable as it was with Mint...
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