The check for updates fails in this case, and your only option is to head over to the Adobe website to perform the manual update instead. It is certainly a possibility that Google has not yet made available the update for Chrome's Flash plugin. If Google has released an update, but not yet delivered it to your device, it will be downloaded and installed. You can check the version right then and there, or hit the 'check for update' button underneath it right away. Locate Adobe Flash Player on the page.Load the internal chrome://components/ page by pasting it in the address bar and hitting the Enter-key (or typing it).We talked about Chrome's chrome://components/ page back in 2012 for the first time, and hinted at the possibility of using it to check for updates.īasically, what you want to do is the following to check for, download, and install Flash updates in Chrome: But, there is another option, one that is more comfortable than having to visit Adobe's website, downloading the new Flash installer from it, and running it on devices that you want to update. This has the effect that Chrome users run an outdated version of Flash, and that should be cause for concern as that goes along with a truckload of vulnerabilities usually.ĭownloading and installing the latest Flash Player from Adobe won't help in this case, as Chrome relies on the PPAPI version of Flash and ignores the NPAPI version that is installed from Adobe's site.Īdobe offers Flash PPAPI versions for download, and that is one option that you have to update Flash in Chrome and Chromium. While this works fine most of the time, usually before or at the time Adobe releases updates for Flash, it may happen that Google is late to the party when it comes to pushing the updated version of Flash to Chrome installations. The main reason why that is the case is that users don't have to worry about the installed version of Adobe Flash too much, as Google takes care of the updating. This is good usually for users who require Adobe Flash. While Chrome does not support classic NPAPI plugins anymore, Chrome is still supporting PPAPI plugins of which Flash is one.

All versions of the Google Chrome web browser ship with Adobe Flash installed natively in the browser.

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