----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Wiseman <pwise...@gmail.com>
> To: Debian User Lists <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 8:58 AM
> Subject: Chrome and Flash - a problem solved
>
> Flash had recently stopped working in my Chrome browser. Googling
> revealed I was not alone, but it also suggested a solution, which
> worked. In 'chrome://plugins', I disabled 'libpepflash.so' (if
> memory
> serves), leaving Flash handling to the Adobe plugin. No need to
> restart Chrome; Flash simply started working again.
Same thing happened to me just a couple days ago. I had left the computer
running while I ran some errands. (It usually runs 24/7.) When I returned
three hours later, no flash! Nobody had touched the system. There was no
power outage or surge.
As you did, I checked "chrome://plugins" and discovered a NEW occurence of
libpepflash.so in .config/google-chrome/PepperFlash in addition to the one in
/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash. It had never been there before. Adobe Flash
was also listed in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins, but it was Disabled as it has
been since I originally install Chrome many upgrades ago. (Google's version of
Flash works better in Chrome than Adobe's, at least on my system, but I still
need it for Firefox. So, I keep it.)
I tried disabling libpepflash.so in the .config path. Didn't work! I
restarted chrome. Ditto. I rebooted the system. Nada. No flash. I then
moved the entire "local" PepperFlash directory out of the .config path to
another directory in my home directory, restarted Chrome and checked "plugins."
The .config occurence of libpepflash.so wasn't listed, but it took a system
restart to get Flash working again.
I just noted while writing this reply, that Chrome has recreated the .config
PepperFlash directory, but it is empty.
B
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